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Elliott Erwitt Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: french
Birth: July 26, 1928

Topics

Simple Photography You Pictures See

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

Crazy Stupid Think You Tell Clown

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

Nature Myself Song Sick Artist Know

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

John Jay Hooker

Justice Government People Long Will

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

Dog Me Solitude Writing Husband

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

Good Live God People World Bad

Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.

Friend Memories Best Blue Me Deep

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

Life Focus Writing My Life Healthy

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pain Language You Concept Learned

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.

Myself Walk Safety Tough Go Explore

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Live Age Think Mediocrity I Think

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

Christian de Duve

Career Circumstances University Out

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

Quality Enthusiasm Understand Hand

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