17 Elliott Erwitt Quotes for You to Enjoy

Elliott Erwitt

French Photographer

Born: Jul 26, 1928

About Photography Think Time Work You

Related authors: Claude Picasso Henri Cartier-Bresson Jacques-Henri Lartigue Laurent Baheux Patrick Demarchelier Robert Doisneau William Klein Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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. Elliott Erwitt

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

Art Me You Photography Everything Way Finding See About Something Observation Ordinary Place Interesting Little Them Found Things

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

Better Think Photographer Pictures Amateur Maybe Being Apart Professional

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Elliott Erwitt

Before Photographing Take Sure Off Cap Lens

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 Degraded Photoshop Somehow General Which Produce Image

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

Long Think Most Dead Around Editors Been

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. Elliott Erwitt

History You People Opportunity Somebody Would Would-Be Record Wrong Perfectly Covering Historic Sneaking Legitimate Event Belong

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book. Elliott Erwitt

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point. Elliott Erwitt

Good You Sometimes Long Several Some Ratio Point Contact Taking Days Pictures Likely Sheet None Go Get Successful Shots

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't. Elliott Erwitt

You Sense Visual Something Either

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive. Elliott Erwitt

Subjects Survive Eternal Your

My life has been quite interesting professionally. Elliott Erwitt

Life My Life Has-Been Been Quite Interesting Professionally

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

Taking Advantage Pictures Get Famous Published

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. Elliott Erwitt

Buy Age Photography Better School Thought Own Everybody Earning Biscuits Way Neighbors High Find High School One-Way Something My Own Weddings Taking Stuff Since Pictures Another Got Been Children Working Early Early Age

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

Good Extraordinarily Berlin Eastern Part Like Lot Museums

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