Elliott Erwitt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Inspirational #Taking Pictures
“Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Agency #Brain #May
“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

#Opposites #Degrees #Following The Crowd
“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

#Photography #Real #Style
“Most photographers work best alone, myself included.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photographer
“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

#Photography #Home #Cameras
“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Technique #Inability
“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Fun #Appreciate #Simplicity
“It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Hobbies #Treats
“You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Successful #Being Successful
“Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Fall #Light
“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

#Photography #People #Important
“Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Art #Creating
“Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Simple #Stuff
“A picture should be looked at - not talked about.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Should
“You don't study photography, you do it”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Study
“You don't study photography, you just do it.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Study #Just Do It
“If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Subjects
“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.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Photography
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Cameras #Things Happen
“Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Nonsense #Academic
“I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Children #Men
“You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Want #Photographer
“The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Listening #Needs
“If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography
“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

#Photography #People #Goal
“I am serious about not being serious”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Serious
“As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #People #Appreciate
“I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.”
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Philosophy #Believe
“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

#Photography #Hands #Car

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