Elliott Erwitt Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

• I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Real, Style

• Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Home, Cameras

• All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, World, Technique

• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

• Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Simple, Stuff

  "The intimacy of strangers". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

• You don't study photography, you just do it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Study

• A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Should

• It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Hobbies, Photographer

• As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Appreciate, People

• You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

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  Photography, Successful, Photographer

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

• Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Fall, Light

• Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Quality, Ease

• Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Art, Creating

• I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, Men

• You don't study photography. You do it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Study

  "A Wry Eye: An Interview with Elliott Erwitt". Interview with Janis Bultman, January, 1985.

• Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Nonsense

• I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, People, Important

• It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Humanity, Care

• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

  "Off the Shelf: Elliott Erwitt’s New York" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2010.

• Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Eye, Simple

• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Want, Photographer

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

• It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Care, Photographer

• Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, School, Simple

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