The 72+ Elliott Erwitt Quotes

My Life Has Been Quite Interesting Professionally.

Quality … Has To Do With Intention.

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.

I Like Museums In Berlin A Lot, Especially In The Eastern Part. They're Extraordinarily Good.

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.

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.

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.

I've Been Around So Long, Most Editors Think I'm Dead.

Now Very Often Events Are Set Up For Photographers... The Weddings Are Orchestrated About The Photographers Taking The Picture, Because If It Hasn't Been Photographed It Doesn't Really Exist.

Everybody's Got To Do Something... I'd Been On My Own Since An Early Age And I Thought I Better Find Something To Do To Buy Biscuits And Stuff. From High School Onwards I Was Earning My Way With Photography, One Way Or Another, Working In Darkrooms And Taking Pictures Of Weddings, Neighbors' Children And So On.

All Of My Marriages Lasted Seven Years.

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.