Alive Quote by Aaron Siskind

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why…

— George R. R. Martin

I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I…

— Lynsey Addario

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation…

— Gordon Parks

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

— Jay Sean

I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a…

— Dan Winters

I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them.…

— Danielle Arbid

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…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could…

— George E. Brown, Jr

My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from…

— Karim Rashid

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and…

— Olaf Stapledon

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

— Greta Thunburg