Elliott Erwitt Quotes

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

My close-up was magnificent!

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I like to know where the camera is.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

I picked up photography in high school.

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

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

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

I've got a great collection of photography.

I've been working with photography for many years.