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…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt