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Top 15 Don McCullin Quotes (2025 Update)

Don McCullin Quote: “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?”

1. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.”

2. “Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.”

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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.’”

4. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.”

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

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “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?”

11. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.”

12. “I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.”

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.”

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

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Don McCullin Quote: “Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.”

15. “Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.”

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “There’s always a threat surrounding the things you love.”

16. “There’s always a threat surrounding the things you love.”

— Don McCullin

Don McCullin Quote: “I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.”

17. “I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.”

— Don McCullin

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