The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

- Steve Mccurry

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

- Steve Mccurry

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction …

- Steve Mccurry

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

- Steve Mccurry

What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. Bu…

- Steve Mccurry

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

- Steve Mccurry

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

- Steve Mccurry

In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, n…

- Steve Mccurry

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

- Steve Mccurry