Eve Arnold Quotes
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
- If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is…
- You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
- A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images…
- It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I…
- I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
- I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
- I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box…
- It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
- The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
- I came to photography by accident.
- I can't hold a camera anymore.
- I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
- I had in mind a long career.
- It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
- Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
- Themes recur again and again in my work.
- What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
- What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
- What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.