Photojournalist Quotes

#1. Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

Elizabeth Peters

#2. I'm not a photojournalist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#3. In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

Ma Jian

#4. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

Joel T. McGrath

#5. The truth was, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist was the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two had in common was the blank page.

Lynsey Addario

#6. I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

Ronnie Spector

#7. Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

Drew Carey

#9. I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

Debby Ryan

#10. You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

Bill Eppridge

#11. If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.

Ed Kashi

#12. Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.

Shaul Schwarz

#13. My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

Ed Kashi

#14. I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Wole Soyinka

#15. I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

Tavi Gevinson

#16. 'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Jim Beaver

#17. Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

Craig Groeschel

#18. a photojournalist. Eventually she had come to understand

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#19. There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Michael Mann

#20. It's tempting to get lost in the study, to turn to books and study groups and classes, to know all about God but not know God himself, to read about the Bible rather than read the Bible itself.

Michelle DeRusha

#21. All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Charles De Lint

#22. I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Platon

#23. Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .

Anna Akhmatova

#24. I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others.

Brian Skerry

#25. Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

Bill Eppridge

#26. The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

Lynsey Addario

#27. The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

Lynsey Addario

#28. He's going to kill everyone on this planet, reduce the human race to dust. There will be no one to stop him. You are the only one who can. - Aiden Deverill

Alexandra May

#29. To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

Ruth Orkin

#30. I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Jessica Lange