Elliott Erwitt Quotes About Photography

• El objetivo de hacer fotos es no tener que explicar las cosas con palabras.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspiración, Fotografía, Cámaras

• 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

• No pasa nada cuando te quedas sentado en casa. Siempre me propongo llevar una cámara conmigo en todo momento... Simplemente disparo a lo que me interesa en ese momento.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Home, Cameras

• All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, World, Technique

• Para mí, la fotografía es un arte de observación. Se trata de encontrar algo interesante en un lugar ordinario... He descubierto que tiene poco que ver con las cosas que ves y todo que ver con la forma en que las ves.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Simple, Stuff

  "The intimacy of strangers". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

• You don't study photography, you just do it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Study

• A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Should

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

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Hobbies, Photographer

• 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, Appreciate, People

• You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Successful, Photographer

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Quality, Ease

• 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

• 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 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 don't study photography. You do it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Study

  "A Wry Eye: An Interview with Elliott Erwitt". Interview with Janis Bultman, January, 1985.

• La buena fotografía no consiste en imprimir por zonas ni en ninguna otra tontería de Ansel Adams. Se trata simplemente de ver. O ves o no ves. Lo demás es académico. La fotografía es simplemente una función de darse cuenta de las cosas. Nada más.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Nonsense

• 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

• Se trata de reaccionar ante lo que ves, a ser posible sin prejuicios. Puedes encontrar imágenes en cualquier parte. Se trata simplemente de fijarse en las cosas y organizarlas. Sólo tienes que preocuparte por lo que te rodea y tener inquietud por la humanidad y la comedia humana.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Humanity, Care

• Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Eye, Simple

• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Fotografía, Quiero, Fotógrafo

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

• 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

  Photography, Care, Photographer

• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

• 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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

  "Off the Shelf: Elliott Erwitt’s New York" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2010.

• 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, Goal, Laughing

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