Consumers Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there,…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race.…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.

— Philip Jones Griffiths