Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

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• I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to…
• It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
• I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second.…
• I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
• The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with…
• I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
• Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic.…
• I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by…
• More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions…
• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter.…
• You photograph with all your ideology.
• I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever…
• I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
• I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years,…
• For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what…
• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
• I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures…

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