13 Sebastiao Salgado Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sebastiao Salgado

Brazilian Photographer

Born: Feb 8, 1944

Important Life Live People Photography You

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So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. Sebastiao Salgado

Hope Thought Garbage Innocence Way Photograph Photographed Degradation See Give Only Factories Had Idea Pictures Pristine Go Were End Times Polluting Stories In The End Us Planet Incentive Show Many Bring

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art. Sebastiao Salgado

Art Me Concept Anything Wide

I work on stories rather than individual pictures. Sebastiao Salgado

Work Rather Individual Pictures Than Stories

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. Sebastiao Salgado

Black Black And White White Heritage Our Way Our Planet Photograph Only Point Point Of View Know Most Course Because How Pristine Go End The Only Thing Decided In The End Places Them Planet View Thing Honest

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. Sebastiao Salgado

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. Sebastiao Salgado

Photography School Never Economist Learn Am Former

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time. Sebastiao Salgado

Time Book First Every Films Out Fabulous Developed Put Economist Looked Did Stories Aside Show Career Starting

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. Sebastiao Salgado

Made Spirituality Animals Stupid Become Living Other Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Cities Thousands Thousands Of Years Born More More And More Smarter Since Been Years Link Survive Land Us Species

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this. Sebastiao Salgado

Future You Important Live Other Would Eat Generations Like Were Decent Where Sustainable Interested Planet Now Right

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