Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead! — 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
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. — 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
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can… — 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… — 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… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every… — 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… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always… — 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.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks… — 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… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
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
