Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

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.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Times are different now. Today, I play the music I want, and I just try to do my best.

When I was younger, I was into fashion, but I wasn't always able to afford and have the platform to express myself and do different things that I'm able to do now.

It's so funny to see the evolution in my music and personal style as a whole because, for me, they all work together as art. As my music changes, I'm compelled to change my hair, clothes, or shoes. It all has to be cohesive.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.