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Pictures Quotes by Elliott Erwitt
- It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them.…
- Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application…
- There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered…
- The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little…
- I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction…
- The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then…
- The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
- 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 might strike someone…
- The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how…
- Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
- You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
- I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
- Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy…
- In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if…
- 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 it's just curiosity.…
- The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you…
- I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for…
- The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
- You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and…
More Pictures Quotes
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them… — Douglas Adams
- I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole… — Victoria Beckham
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop
- I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs… — Usain Bolt
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. — Ray Bradbury
- Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm… — Kobe Bryant
- It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the… — Gisele Bundchen