Alberto Korda Quotes

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can get a bit nervous while I'm speaking, but I love to touch others with my message. TV hosting with a teleprompter is also a comfort zone. I love to nail the copy quickly with the right expression and facial expression. Delivery is key!

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

It's a moment that I will be asked about for the rest of my life as an actor, and I carry that moment with pride, that Rita [in Dexter] had such an impact and that it was such a gut-wrenching moment for audience members.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?