"I'm not an artist. An artist makes an……" — Sebastiao Salgado

"I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller."

— Sebastiao Salgado

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44 Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, 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…
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…
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them.…
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much…
I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being…
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities,…
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more…
You photograph with all your ideology.
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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