Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

Sebastiao Salgado

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• Innocence
• Degradation
• Deposits

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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• No one can live under degradation.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Live
  • Degradation

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Play

• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Business
  • Always
  • Insecurity

• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • See
  • Photograph
  • Details

• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • American
  • Air
  • Innocence

• Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Today
  • Him
  • Innocence

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Right

• The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Man

• Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Moon

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Language
  • Ends
  • Photograph

• I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Said
  • Transformation
  • Photograph

• There is no special way a photograph should look.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Special

• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Problem

• You photograph with all your ideology.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photograph
  • Ideology

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

  

  Manning Marable
  • Brother
  • Security
  • Protect

• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Opinion
  • Advice
  • Regret

• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Moments
  • Glad
  • Humiliated

• So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photograph
  • Innocence
  • Degradation