Ifs Quote by Elliott Erwitt

My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their…

— Martine Franck

Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers,…

— Howard S. Becker

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of…

— Harry Callahan

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

— Fay Godwin

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

— Christopher Anderson

[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you…

— Tina Barney

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you…

— Eve Arnold

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…

— Elliott Erwitt

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're…

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all,…

— Elliott Erwitt