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Pictures Quotes by James Nachtwey
- If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
- I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve…
- I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
- The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures to be looked…
- But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop…
- I'm a messenger. I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them to be concerned about the people in the pictures. I…
More Pictures Quotes
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them… — Douglas Adams
- I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole… — Victoria Beckham
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop
- I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs… — Usain Bolt
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. — Ray Bradbury
- Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm… — Kobe Bryant
- It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the… — Gisele Bundchen