"I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be."

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Source : Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin

Lynsey Addario

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Comforting Quotes

“Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'Ã©tat, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.”
“On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.”
“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
“3-D movies can make me nauseous.”
“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”
“Art and morality are, with certain provisosâ€¦one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Source : 1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.
“Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.”
“Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?”

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