Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

Sebastiao Salgado

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• I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Think
  • Glamour
  • Trashy

• It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • True
  • Purpose

• Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Evidence

• I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moving

• Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photography
  • Photographer

• Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Heaven

• I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Eye
  • Speak

• To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Pride
  • Honor
  • Criticism

• In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.

  

  Deborah Turbeville
  • People
  • Style
  • Reason

• ... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Persons
  • Stage
  • Crisis

• I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Hand

• The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • Sin
  • Holocaust
  • Participate

• It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photographer