Quotes by Edward Burtynsky - Page 1

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Fondness
Landscape
Surreal
Becomes
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Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Activism
Subliminal
Referred
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All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Concern
Expansion
Landscape
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I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Audience
Film
Wish
Accessible
Broader
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I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.
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Pursue
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When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.
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Sunny
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No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Equals
No Life
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I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Artwork
Conversation
Millions
People
Sustainability
Wish
Join
Millions Of People
Persuade
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Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Following
Knows
Sometimes
Intuitively
Leads
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I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Kids
Competition
Ideas
New Ideas
Sustainable
Invent
Launch
Motivates
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Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Berlin
Haunting
Symbolic
Divide
Oppress
Problematic
Uniquely
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Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Meaningful
Detail
Reveal
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I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Innovation
Presenting
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Best Work Myself
Heaviest
Industries
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I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Decay
Lying
Offshore
Photograph
Sea
Hard Time
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I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Borders
Finite
Billion
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To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Automobile
Dependent
Invention
Figured
Suburb
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Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Digital
Mediocre
People
Photography
Photoshop
Stuff
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I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Blue Collar
Familiar
Gm
Informed
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Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Affected
Catastrophe
Magnitude
Species
Caused
Planetary
Solely
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If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Chasing
Current Events
Disaster
Driven
Narrative
Current
Largely
Looser
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Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Behaviour
Good Governance
Governance
Greater Good
Helpful
Taxes
Polluting
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We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet. We are working to supply the kinds of materials that are necessary for the lives we've built for ourselves.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Materials
Extracted
Stood
Supply
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I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Processing
Wintertime
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Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Loses
Winner
Cycle
Directed
Disrupt
Whoever
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In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they're all still going on - we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Bronze
Ephemeral
Information Age
Iron
Ages
Stone
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As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Jeopardy
Collective
Intellectually
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Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Animal
Human Beings
Resources
Species
Taken
Unique
Scale
Fellow
Rogue
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In film, you can create the illusion of time and space. People speak; characters reveal their feelings. You can use music, which informs how you should be feeling, and it carries you to the right emotional space.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Time And Space
Time Space Music
Carries
Space Time Music
Informs
Reveal
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I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Positive
Environmental
Concerned
Movement
Thinking
Tone
Too Much
Trying
Aspects
Environmental Movement
Failed
Pull
Stick
Sold
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I love the tones of browns and grays - I love more neutral tones. That's why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Desert
Neutral
Browns
Certain Way
Lock
Tendency
Tones
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One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Legal
Accidents
All Things
Capitalism
Conscious
Consistent
Landscapes
Systems
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I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Indictment
Species
Complex
Easily
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I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Capture
Digital Technology
Invention
Chip
Object
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These landscapes aren't breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposeful landscapes, whether to extend our cities or build a mine or put a road in or clear a forest. I've been photographing that which has been intended by us; it's not an accident.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Cities
Clear
Illegal
News
Accident
Breaking
Extend
Forest
Intended
Landscapes
Mine
Necessarily
Photographing
Purposeful
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The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Balance
Delicate
Destroying
Finite
Humans
Manage
Members
Nine
Population
Resources
Species
Billion
Blew
Delicate Balance
Rogue
Survive
To Survive
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My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Living Room
Painter
Ukrainian
Famous Father Me
Instrument
Walls
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Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Degrees
Survival
Water
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Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Core
Critical
Exploration
Resources
Survival
Aspects
Begins
Forms
Degree
Unlike
Throughout
Underlying
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I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Space
Humanity
Lament
Perception
Photography
Wilderness
Years
Work Space Experience
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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