I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
![“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless…” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/006/joel-meyerowitz-24422_bites_they-photographs-teach-you-about-your-ow_541130.jpg)
![“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88a/joel-meyerowitz-24422_cameras_the-small-camera-taught-me-energy-and-de_615189.jpg)
![“You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4d/joel-meyerowitz-24422_astonishing_you-look-at-it-a-photograph-and-all-arou_985541.jpg)
![“I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. It’s a beautiful system, this game of…” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84f/joel-meyerowitz-24422_beautiful_i-want-to-enjoy-the-languor-of-just-livi_1032294.jpg)