Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.

At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.

You photograph with all your ideology.

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.