Quotes About Street Photographers

#1. The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.

Joel Meyerowitz

#2. Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Minor White

#3. To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Ayn Rand

#4. The Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 11, 1857 was the crime of that century... it was a crime that disgraced humanity.

J.F. Giffard

#5. Whatever he did it drove you away and into my bed and don't you forget that!
"Tyler" Walkers by Kyra Gates

Kyra Gates

#6. Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

Arthur Kemp

#7. I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

Samantha Bond

#8. Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Martin Delany

#9. I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Jenny Eclair

#10. The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

Immanuel Kant

#11. You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Charles Dickens

#12. Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

Garry Winogrand

#13. It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.

Saul Bellow

#14. Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way. In a word - messy.

Brene Brown

#15. Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#16. I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

Kid Rock

#17. There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

Michael Pollan