Eve Arnold Quotes

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I came to photography by accident.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.