Nachtwey Photographer Quotes & Sayings

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself. — James Nachtwey

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky. — Martin Heidegger

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways. — Susanna Kearsley

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal. — James Nachtwey

Pride is not all of one kind. — Charles Dickens

Maybe because he's already been in my dreams for so long, it feels to me as though we've always been together. — Anne Eliot

A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty. — Sunday Adelaja

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering! — Ashleigh Brilliant

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. — Napoleon Hill

Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world. — Nelly Sachs

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least. — James Nachtwey

I don't believe every download is a lost sale. — Jeff Tweedy

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. — Nancy Gibbs

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Daemon: "Yes. Help. It's a pretty easy word. I could give you the definition if you like."
Whelp, there went sarcasm-free Daemon.
The glass shattered in Lotho's hand.
Daemon frowned as shards of glass tinkled to the floor. "And that is why we can't have nice things. — Jennifer L. Armentrout, J. Lynn