Eve Arnold Quotes

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.

As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.

I'm not a photojournalist.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

I think a lot of times, especially for certain stories, photographers travel together for safety reasons, and they also invariably cross paths. But you could have 10 photographers shooting together in the same spot but capturing different images.

The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.