Weegee Quotes

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• When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and…
• What I did, anybody can do.
• To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.
• Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.
• There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who…
• News photography teaches you to think fast.
• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
• A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.
• Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
• Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got…
• My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…
• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All…
• If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
• I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography.…
• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

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