Elliott Erwitt Quotes
- Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at…
- It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them.…
- Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application…
- Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does…
- I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a…
- There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered…
- As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never…
- The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little…
- I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction…
- Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The…
- The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then…
- You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
- All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.
- Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
- I am serious about not being serious
- Ill always be an amateur photographer.
- When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take…
- It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
- The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
- My life has been quite interesting professionally,