My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas. Elliott Erwitt More Quotes by Elliott Erwitt More Quotes From Elliott Erwitt I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. Elliott Erwitt vocation trade 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 home morning A visual sense is something you either have or you don't. Elliott Erwitt visuals I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images. Elliott Erwitt photography mean thinking If you keep your cool, you'll get everything. Elliott Erwitt photography photographer ifs I am serious about not being serious. Elliott Erwitt serious A picture should be looked at - not talked about. Elliott Erwitt photography photographer should 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 car photography hands 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 All of my marriages lasted seven years. Elliott Erwitt seven seven-years years Ill always be an amateur photographer. Elliott Erwitt ill photography photographer 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 eye photography simple The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography. Elliott Erwitt emotional photography simple It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. Elliott Erwitt care photography humanity Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Elliott Erwitt noticing-things function photography I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica. Elliott Erwitt leica cameras use 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 cameras photography thinking I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers. Elliott Erwitt landscape flower people In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up. Elliott Erwitt movement stars way 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 cameras morning interesting
