Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets…

— Arnold Newman

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

— Arnold Newman

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can,…

— Arnold Newman

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

— Arnold Newman

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

— Arnold Newman

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into…

— Arnold Newman

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha…

— Arnold Newman

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

— Arnold Newman

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in…

— Arnold Newman

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own…

— Arnold Newman

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera…

— Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a…

— Arnold Newman

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

— Arnold Newman

I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde…

— Arnold Newman

I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it…

— Arnold Newman