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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

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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

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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

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? Ernst Haas

Beautiful Picture Recognize Would How Were Impression Us Expression Ever

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. Ernst Haas

Beauty Those Moods Paris Most Wanted Shot Connect Painted Paints

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera. Eve Arnold

Pay Pay Attention Lesson Intrusion Attention Camera Number

I had in mind a long career. Eve Arnold

Mind Long Long Career Had Career

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Eve Arnold

People Extraordinary See Simply Front Anybody Ordinary Either Them Lens

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition. Eve Arnold

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It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about. Eve Arnold

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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. Eve Arnold

People Before Cares Photographer About Given Lens Much Compassionate

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph. Eve Arnold

People Willing Photograph Photographing Tried Give Involve Were

I can't hold a camera anymore. Eve Arnold

Camera Anymore Hold

You should never reveal your true age. Eve Arnold

You Age Never True Reveal Should Your

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. Eve Arnold

Sometimes Finished Nothing Back Find About Through Never Had Putting Know Because Exhilarating Off Very Going Quite Now Things

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. Eve Arnold

You Musicians Recording Everything Out Photograph Photographer Performers Pictures Concentration Because Motion Stimulating Were Subject Up Targets Reflexes Get Break While Sensitivity Moving Skill Keep Fast Keeping Technicians Needed

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. Fay Godwin

Best Black Black And White White Medium Know Maybe Landscapes

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. Fay Godwin

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