Photography Photojournalism Quotes

#1. Death is certain, Aleran - for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.

Jim Butcher

#2. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#3. Because I want to feel something other than this emotional crap

Melina Marchetta

#4. I don't think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I'd want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'
Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that.

Roald Dahl

#6. The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.

Luc Delahaye

#7. Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

John Yarmuth

#8. I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

W. Eugene Smith

#9. Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself to the brink of destruction.

Chris Beckett

#10. Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#11. You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Sally Mann

#12. I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

Daya

#13. People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

Hayley Williams

#14. You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.

S.R. Crawford

#15. What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

Julian Fellowes

#16. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#17. [Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Philip Jones Griffiths