Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

The most important thing ... is not clicking the shutter ... it is clicking with the subject.

In a photograph a person's eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.