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… — 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
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
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
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
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
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
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
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
'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
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
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
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
![“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/i/d4d/joel-meyerowitz-24422_astonishing_you-look-at-it-a-photograph-and-all-arou_985541.png)