Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes

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

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

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

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

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

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.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

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

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.