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My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
— Elliott Erwitt
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
— Elliott Erwitt
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
— Elliott Erwitt
I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.
— Elliott Erwitt
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.
— Elliott Erwitt
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.
— Elliott Erwitt
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
— Elliott Erwitt
Photography is simply a function of noticing things.
— Elliott Erwitt
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
— Elliott Erwitt
You don't study photography, you just do it.
— Elliott Erwitt
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
— Elliott Erwitt
A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
— Elliott Erwitt
My life has been quite interesting professionally.
— Elliott Erwitt
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
— Elliott Erwitt
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
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
— Elliott Erwitt
All of my marriages lasted seven years.
— Elliott Erwitt
If your subjects are eternal ... they'll survive.
— Elliott Erwitt
You don't study photography, you do it
— Elliott Erwitt
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
— Elliott Erwitt
You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.
— Elliott Erwitt
A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
— Elliott Erwitt
Quality ... has to do with intention.
— Elliott Erwitt
I'll always be an amateur photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
— Elliott Erwitt
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
— Elliott Erwitt
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
— Elliott Erwitt
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
— Elliott Erwitt
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
— Elliott Erwitt
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
— Elliott Erwitt
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
— Elliott Erwitt
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
— Elliott Erwitt
Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.
— Elliott Erwitt
Do what the client wants, not what you want.
— Elliott Erwitt