Elliott Erwitt Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Photography, Morning, Home

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• 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.

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  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

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

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• 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.

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  Photography, Eye, Simple

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• Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

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  Agency, Brain, May

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• Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

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  Photography, Goal, Laughing

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

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  Taking Pictures, Advantage

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• You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

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  Photography, Want, Photographer

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• Do what the client wants, not what you want.

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  Want, Clients, What You Want

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

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  Responsibility, Guarantees That, Luck

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

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• 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”

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

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  Photography, Photographer, Study

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• 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.

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  Photography, Want, Photographer

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

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• When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

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  Morning, Interesting, Cameras

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

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• All of my marriages lasted seven years.

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  Years, Seven Years, Seven

  "Best in show" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Photography, Children, School

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• I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

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  Years, Together, Loved Ones

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• My life has been quite interesting professionally.

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  Interesting, Has Beens

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

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  Thinking, Editors, Long

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• 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.

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  Photography, Wedding, Events

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• Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

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  Opportunity, People, Events

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• In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.

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  Stars, Movement, Way

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

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

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  Museums, Berlin, Eastern

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