Eve Arnold Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.”

“I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

“What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.”

“I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.”

“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'”

“I came to photography by accident.”

“I can't hold a camera anymore.”

“I had in mind a long career.”

“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.”

“Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”