Quotes from Elliott Erwitt

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

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

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.

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

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

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.