As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

- Graciela Iturbide

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk …

- Graciela Iturbide

If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different c…

- Graciela Iturbide

I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and i…

- Graciela Iturbide

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

- Graciela Iturbide

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

- Graciela Iturbide

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

- Graciela Iturbide

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

- Graciela Iturbide

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I …

- Graciela Iturbide