Don McCullin Quotes

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I need art around me always.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss!

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was my transformation.

Art is feminine.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.