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"If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."

— Eve Arnold (April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012)
the first woman photographer to join Magnum Photos

(Source: TIME)

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

— Steve Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple Computers

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."

— Banksy (Wall and Piece)

"The only difference is between a good and bad picture, or a boring picture. A picture that engages you, that makes you think, that gives you some kind of emotion, makes you laugh or cry. That’s a good picture."

— Elliott Erwitt, Magnum photographer and filmmaker

(Source: TIME)

"The gold standard of photography remains, as it has always been, Henri Cartier-Bresson."

— Elliott Erwitt, Magnum photographer and filmmaker.
Source: New York Times interview conducted by his son Misha.

(Source: The New York Times)

"Want to improve your art? DRAW. Wishing won’t make it happen!"

— Robert Crumb (via jittaaa005)

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

— Christopher McCandless (via escapetoalaska)

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."

— Bob Dylan (via electricollection)

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"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

— Johnny Cash (via thoughtsdetained)

"To take photographs is to put one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis."

— Henri Cartier-Bresson (via kari-shma)

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