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All of my marriages lasted se...

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

Nothing happens when you sit ...

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 60 quotes

It's just seeing - at least t...

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 60 quotes

There's no great mystique to ...

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

Quality doesn't mean deep bla...

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

The advice I would give to an...

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

If you've got no responsibili...

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.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

Making people laugh is one of...

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.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

I'm an amateur photographer, ...

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

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I'll always be an amateur pho...

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

Covering a historic event is ...

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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Making books is a very specif...

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 60 quotes

Somehow Photoshop and the eas...

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

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In those simpler days, you co...

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.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

Photography is pretty simple ...

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

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The most awful museums are in...

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

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The thing is that when you do...

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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The ratio of successful shots...

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 60 quotes

I appreciate simplicity, true...

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

I'm not a serious photographe...

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Elliott Erwitt 60 quotes

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