Quotes About Steve Mccurry

#1. If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

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#2. What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

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#3. [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

#4. I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

Chris Hedges

#5. Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

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#6. Ask any dreamer, it's not an easy road,
But to them; they never questioned, what they'd always known.

Nikki Rowe

#7. Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

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#8. Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#9. What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#10. To become a photographer leave your house first.

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#11. If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

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#12. Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

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#13. In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.

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#14. If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

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#15. Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

Frederick The Great

#16. The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

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#17. The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

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#18. I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

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#19. It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

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#20. I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

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#21. My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

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#22. For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope ( ... )Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

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#23. We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

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#24. (Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

Marina Tsvetaeva