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Take Quotes by Elliott Erwitt
- 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…
- As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never…
- 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…
- When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take…
- It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
- 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.
- Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when…
- 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…
- Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in…
- Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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