Malick Sidibe quotes

“I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.”
-- Malick Sidibe

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“It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing.”
-- Malick Sidibe

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“Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.”
-- Malick Sidibe

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“Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.”
-- Malick Sidibe

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“People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.”
-- Malick Sidibe

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“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”

“When I make a picture, I make love.”

Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

“You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.”

“It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.”

“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”

“As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!”

“So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.”

“I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.”

“I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.”

Source : Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.