Elliott Erwitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.”

“If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.”

“Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.”

“I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.”

“I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.”

“Most photographers work best alone, myself included.”

“I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.”

“My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.”

“The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.”

“I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.”