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Elliott Erwitt Quotes

French - Photographer | July 26, 1928 -

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

Think Better Professional Pictures

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

Quality Photography Image Ease Which

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

You Something Visual Sense Either

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

Money Way Worst Museums China Stuff

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.

Camera Favorite Requirements Depends

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.

Picture Now Events Up Exist Been

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

Work Best Book Pictures Kind Way

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

I Am Serious Say Photographer Being

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.

Good Long You Pictures Go Sometimes

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.

Stars Time You Pictures Way Human

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

Years Marriages Seven Lasted

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

Survive Your Eternal Subjects

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