"What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling."

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Source : "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

Steve McCurry

#What Matters Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Important Quotes

“I like to have a hectic schedule.”
“I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.”
“Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.”
“People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.”
“Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.”
“I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.”
“Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”

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