Don McCullin Quotes

• Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

  Don McCullin

  Photography, Feelings, Looks

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• Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

  Don McCullin

  Inspirational, Photography, Feelings

  "Governance and Resistance in World Politics". Book by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguashca, p. 68, 2003.

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• Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

  Don McCullin

  Photography, Truthful, Persons

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• I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.

  Don McCullin

  Children, Flower, Tired

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• The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

  Don McCullin

  Real, Fighting, Space

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• Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

  Don McCullin

  Bears, Life Is, Seeing

  Don McCullin (2010). “Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography”, p.4, Random House

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• I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

  Don McCullin

  Photography, Jobs, Cameras

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• Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

  Don McCullin

  Home, People, Suffering

  "What price the Brussels airport photograph?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2016.

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• There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

  Don McCullin

  Threat, Things You Love

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• Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

  Don McCullin

  Fotografía, Ojo, Pensamiento

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• You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

  Don McCullin

  Water, Records, Wade

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• Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

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  Photography, Has Beens, Generous

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• I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

  Don McCullin

  Dark, Peers, Sometimes

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• I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

  Don McCullin

  Doctors, Want, Saws

  Don McCullin (2011). “Shaped by War”, Random House UK

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• La belleza es una palabra peligrosa. Para mí, la belleza se convierte en algo indulgente. Es una especie de momento arrebatado para mí, porque tengo derecho a un buen día en mi vida, pero la belleza se acerca al narcisismo, que realmente me disgusta, sobre todo en los seres humanos que han nacido con buena apariencia, que se aprovechan de ello. Es una palabra un poco dudosa para mí. La miro con cautela. Puede ser como meterse en arenas movedizas; puede meterte en todo tipo de problemas.

  Don McCullin

  Nice, Narcissism, Kind

  Fuente: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.

  Don McCullin

  Eye, Thinking, Understanding

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• I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

  Don McCullin

  Atheist, Fall, Mind

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• I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

  Don McCullin

  World, Want, Photographer

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you have too many accolades you don't try harder. I would never allow myself to think that I don't have to try harder. I like the idea of always learning, always trying to do better. The word "master" sits uneasy on my terms.

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  Mean, Thinking, Trying

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• I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

  Don McCullin

  Photography, Names, Asking

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• I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

  Don McCullin

  Suerte

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