Elliott Erwitt

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

I am serious about not being serious

— Elliott Erwitt

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

— Elliott Erwitt

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

— Elliott Erwitt

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

— Elliott Erwitt

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

— Elliott Erwitt

You don't study photography, you do it

— Elliott Erwitt

My life has been quite interesting professionally,

— Elliott Erwitt

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

— Elliott Erwitt

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

— Elliott Erwitt

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

— Elliott Erwitt

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

— Elliott Erwitt

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

— Elliott Erwitt

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

— Elliott Erwitt

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

— Elliott Erwitt

Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make…

— Elliott Erwitt

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is…

— Elliott Erwitt

The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're…

— Elliott Erwitt

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then…

— Elliott Erwitt

Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do…

— Elliott Erwitt

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to…

— Elliott Erwitt

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I…

— Elliott Erwitt

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean,…

— Elliott Erwitt

If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a…

— Elliott Erwitt

As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see.…

— Elliott Erwitt

I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if…

— Elliott Erwitt

Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to…

— Elliott Erwitt

Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need…

— Elliott Erwitt

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…

— Elliott Erwitt

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank…

— Elliott Erwitt

Quality … has to do with intention.

— Elliott Erwitt

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

— Elliott Erwitt

You don't study photography, you just do it.

— Elliott Erwitt

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

— Elliott Erwitt

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

— Elliott Erwitt

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

— Elliott Erwitt

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

— Elliott Erwitt

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

— Elliott Erwitt