Lynsey Addario Quotes

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I just love the world of photography.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I wish I were a really good photographer.