Weegee

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks…

— Weegee

What I did, anybody can do.

— Weegee

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

— Weegee

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is…

— Weegee

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

— Weegee

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of…

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I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to…

— Weegee

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

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Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

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My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

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News photography teaches you to think fast.

— Weegee

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s…

— Weegee

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

— Weegee

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake…

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Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I…

— Weegee

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

— Weegee

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the…

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