Joel Meyerowitz

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

— Joel Meyerowitz

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going…

— Joel Meyerowitz

It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you…

— Joel Meyerowitz

One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that…

— Joel Meyerowitz

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

— Joel Meyerowitz

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

— Joel Meyerowitz

You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography]…

— Joel Meyerowitz

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your…

— Joel Meyerowitz

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as…

— Joel Meyerowitz

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would…

— Joel Meyerowitz

When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an…

— Joel Meyerowitz

We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading'…

— Joel Meyerowitz

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

— Joel Meyerowitz

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite…

— Joel Meyerowitz