74 Quotes by Sebastião Salgado

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.

Let’s build Paradise again.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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