War Photographer Quotes

#1. I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Cat Power

#2. I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

James Nachtwey

#3. I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

#4. I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#5. I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

James Nachtwey

#6. The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Robert Capa

#7. One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

Cornell Capa

#8. I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.

Peter Menzel

#9. It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.

Manu Joseph

#10. Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.

Jamel Shabazz

#11. I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

Giles Duley

#12. The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Robert Capa

#13. Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

Nancy Gibbs

#14. It's amazing what money can't do.

Bryant McGill

#15. Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Diana Wynne Jones

#16. Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because it was so hands-on and physical in a way that I really liked.

Kirsten Lepore

#17. I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#18. To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people.

Megan Smith

#19. Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Martin Parr

#20. Every work of art is about everything.

Eli Siegel

#21. My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

David Salle

#22. Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions ... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.

Andy Burnham