Malick Sidibe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
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It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing.
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Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.
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Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.
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People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.
-- Malick Sidibe
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All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
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When I make a picture, I make love.
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You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
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It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
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