Top 35 Sebastiao Salgado Quotes (2024 Update)

Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”

1. “In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “Let’s build Paradise again.”

2. “Let’s build Paradise again.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.”

3. “It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.”

4. “I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.”

5. “I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “Photography is full of symbolism, it’s a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.”

6. “Photography is full of symbolism, it’s a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I’m not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it’s not an object, I work in history, I’m a storyteller.”

7. “I’m not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it’s not an object, I work in history, I’m a storyteller.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.”

8. “It’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I don’t want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion – and to raise money.”

9. “I don’t want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion – and to raise money.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”

10. “The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.”

11. “We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.”

12. “I’m not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It’s relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.”

13. “Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It’s relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “For me, art is such a wide concept – anything can be art.”

14. “For me, art is such a wide concept – anything can be art.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.”

15. “I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.”

16. “I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.”

17. “I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.”

18. “I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.”

19. “The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “You photograph with all your ideology.”

20. “You photograph with all your ideology.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I discovered that close to half the planet is ‘pristine.’ We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.”

21. “I discovered that close to half the planet is ‘pristine.’ We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.”

22. “I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “As in any person’s life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down’s syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.”

23. “As in any person’s life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down’s syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.”

24. “We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.”

25. “What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.”

26. “There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won’t photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.”

27. “There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won’t photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.”

28. “In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.”

29. “I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it’s formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.”

30. “The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it’s formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I’m a journalist. My life’s on the road, my studio is the planet.”

31. “I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I’m a journalist. My life’s on the road, my studio is the planet.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens – and photography immediately started to invade my life.”

32. “I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens – and photography immediately started to invade my life.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.”

33. “I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “Of course, I won’t be abandoning photography, because it is my life.”

34. “Of course, I won’t be abandoning photography, because it is my life.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it’s too much.”

35. “Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it’s too much.”

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Sebastiao Salgado Quote: “I work on stories rather than individual pictures.”

36. “I work on stories rather than individual pictures.”

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