Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

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.

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

I guess when people feel intimidated or they see something having success they steal it. I don't judge 'em for it but I'm starting to notice that.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.