People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it. Buy all the film you can get your hands on. And then experiment with it.That is the only way to be successful in photography. Test, try, experiment, feel your way along.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
