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> [My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/my-intention-certainly-is-to-create-something-which-is-aesthetic-but/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

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## More by Graciela Iturbide

> [I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/i-never-use-a-telephoto-lens-i-need-to-be-close-to-people-i-need/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/the-unconscious-obsession-that-we-photographers-have-is-that-wherever/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/i-love-poetry-be-it-in-music-or-be-it-in-andrei-tarkovsky-francesca/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/my-intention-certainly-is-to-create-something-which-is-aesthetic-but/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/in-a-way-my-work-is-documentary-but-i-am-also-a-photographer-who-has/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/i-don-t-pretend-to-make-my-photographs-speak-the-truth-of-what-mexico/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/what-the-eye-sees-is-a-synthesis-of-who-you-are-and-all-you-have/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/if-you-are-a-writer-and-you-are-in-rome-you-will-have-a-specific/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/i-think-that-any-photographer-is-an-investigator-photography-is-a/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/in-the-end-photography-for-me-is-just-an-excuse-to-get-to-know-the/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/a-photographer-without-imagination-is-not-a-good-photographer/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/i-do-not-understand-what-makes-me-take-a-picture-cartier-bresson/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/when-i-m-taking-pictures-i-even-forget-that-i-have-a-camera-when-i/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

> [As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graciela-iturbide/as-an-artist-you-need-to-move-on-you-need-to-try-new-things/)

[Graciela Iturbide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graciela-iturbide/)

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