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

• 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

• I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Audience

• Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Photograph

• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Obligation

• The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Italians

• The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Form
  • Various
  • Capital

• 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