Quotes by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

About Yann Arthus-Bertrand:

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.
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The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

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The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

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The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most...

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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictu...

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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince pe...

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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all ...

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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the w...

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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to...

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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's...

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Author Bio

  • NameYann Arthus-Bertrand
  • DescriptionFrench photographer
  • BornMarch 13, 1946
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPainter; Photographer; Film Director; Journalist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour; Officer Of The National Order Of Merit; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?