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Top 25 Lynsey Addario Quotes (2025 Update)

Lynsey Addario Quote: “I choose to live in peace and witness war – to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.”

1. “I choose to live in peace and witness war – to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside. It’s also taught me to cherish the life I return to when I put the camera down. My work makes me better able to love my family and laugh with my friends.”

2. “Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside. It’s also taught me to cherish the life I return to when I put the camera down. My work makes me better able to love my family and laugh with my friends.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “Trying to convey beauty in war was a technique to try to prevent the reader from looking away or turning the page in response to something horrible. I wanted them to linger, to ask questions.”

3. “Trying to convey beauty in war was a technique to try to prevent the reader from looking away or turning the page in response to something horrible. I wanted them to linger, to ask questions.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people’s most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.”

4. “I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people’s most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “With my subjects – the thousands of people I have photographed – I have shared the joy of survival, the courage to resist oppression, the anguish of loss, the resilience of the oppressed, the brutality of the worst of men and the tenderness of the best.”

5. “With my subjects – the thousands of people I have photographed – I have shared the joy of survival, the courage to resist oppression, the anguish of loss, the resilience of the oppressed, the brutality of the worst of men and the tenderness of the best.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “The women also put my life of privilege, opportunity, independence, and freedom into perspective. As an American woman, I was spoiled: to work, to make decisions, to be independent, to have relationships with men, to feel sexy, to fall in love, to fall out of love, to travel. I was only twenty-six, and I had already enjoyed a lifetime of new experiences.”

6. “The women also put my life of privilege, opportunity, independence, and freedom into perspective. As an American woman, I was spoiled: to work, to make decisions, to be independent, to have relationships with men, to feel sexy, to fall in love, to fall out of love, to travel. I was only twenty-six, and I had already enjoyed a lifetime of new experiences.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I was desperate. I spent almost two months traipsing around the mountains of one of the world’s most dangerous places, and as the piece went to press, my reporting was being questioned, some of my strongest images were being removed from the layout, and the editor in chief decided uncharacteristically that he would not run a slide show.”

7. “I was desperate. I spent almost two months traipsing around the mountains of one of the world’s most dangerous places, and as the piece went to press, my reporting was being questioned, some of my strongest images were being removed from the layout, and the editor in chief decided uncharacteristically that he would not run a slide show.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “More than anything, he taught me the art of patience. Cameras introduce tension. People are aware of the power of a camera, and this instinctively makes most subjects uncomfortable and stiff. But Bebeto taught me to linger in a place long enough, without photographing, so that people grew comfortable with me and the camera’s presence.”

8. “More than anything, he taught me the art of patience. Cameras introduce tension. People are aware of the power of a camera, and this instinctively makes most subjects uncomfortable and stiff. But Bebeto taught me to linger in a place long enough, without photographing, so that people grew comfortable with me and the camera’s presence.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive.”

9. “I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “He taught me to stand on a street corner or in a room for an hour – or two or three – waiting for that great epiphany of a moment, the wondrous combination of subject, light, and composition. And something else: the inexplicable magic that made the image dive right into your heart.”

10. “He taught me to stand on a street corner or in a room for an hour – or two or three – waiting for that great epiphany of a moment, the wondrous combination of subject, light, and composition. And something else: the inexplicable magic that made the image dive right into your heart.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “I often lived with an aching emptiness inside me. I learned early on that living a world away meant I would have to work harder to stay close to the people I loved.”

11. “I often lived with an aching emptiness inside me. I learned early on that living a world away meant I would have to work harder to stay close to the people I loved.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “But I have faith, as I’ve always had, that if I work hard enough, care enough, and love enough in all areas of my life, I can create and enjoy a full life.”

12. “But I have faith, as I’ve always had, that if I work hard enough, care enough, and love enough in all areas of my life, I can create and enjoy a full life.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside.”

13. “Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “The truth is that few of us are born into this work. It is something we discover accidentally, something that happens gradually. We get a glimpse of this unusual life and this extraordinary profession, and we want to keep doing it, no matter how exhausting, stressful, or dangerous it becomes. It is the way we make a living, but it feels more like a responsibility, or a calling. It makes us happy, because it gives us a sense of purpose. We bear witness to history, and influence policy.”

14. “The truth is that few of us are born into this work. It is something we discover accidentally, something that happens gradually. We get a glimpse of this unusual life and this extraordinary profession, and we want to keep doing it, no matter how exhausting, stressful, or dangerous it becomes. It is the way we make a living, but it feels more like a responsibility, or a calling. It makes us happy, because it gives us a sense of purpose. We bear witness to history, and influence policy.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.”

15. “I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “Stay in Latin America, learn photography, and make all your professional mistakes in Argentina,” he said, “because if you make one mistake in New York, no one will give you a second chance.”

16. “Stay in Latin America, learn photography, and make all your professional mistakes in Argentina,” he said, “because if you make one mistake in New York, no one will give you a second chance.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “The truth was, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist was the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two had in common was the blank page.”

17. “The truth was, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist was the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two had in common was the blank page.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.”

18. “He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn’t truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love.”

19. “Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn’t truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.”

20. “I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “This was the first time I had to decide between my personal and professional lives. Some part of me knew, or hoped, that real love should complement my work, not take away from it.”

21. “This was the first time I had to decide between my personal and professional lives. Some part of me knew, or hoped, that real love should complement my work, not take away from it.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I had the privilege to travel and to walk away from hardship when it became too much to bear. Most people on earth didn’t have an exit door to walk away from their own lives.”

22. “I had the privilege to travel and to walk away from hardship when it became too much to bear. Most people on earth didn’t have an exit door to walk away from their own lives.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “We had learned from the killing of a Reuters photographer on the balcony of the Palestine Hotel that a long lens could be mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade.”

23. “We had learned from the killing of a Reuters photographer on the balcony of the Palestine Hotel that a long lens could be mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade.”

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Lynsey Addario Quote: “I look at women like that and I just can’t believe it never gets any better for so many people on this planet. When I look at this book, this body of work, I think, Why are we so lucky to have born in a country of no war? Why am I so lucky? That’s what I always come back to. That’s what still plagues me.”

24. “I look at women like that and I just can’t believe it never gets any better for so many people on this planet. When I look at this book, this body of work, I think, Why are we so lucky to have born in a country of no war? Why am I so lucky? That’s what I always come back to. That’s what still plagues me.”

— Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario Quote: “If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man’s profession.”

25. “If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man’s profession.”

— Lynsey Addario

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