Elliott Erwitt Quotes

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

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 live a normal life.

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

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 have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.

When I wake up in the morning, the one thing I think about is being comfortable and wearing enough clothes.

I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email... well, all the time!

I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

Another day. Get up and face it.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.