Fleeting Quote by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

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

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

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

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt