Quotes by Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt

Do what the client wants, not what you want.

Clients

Want

What You Want

Dogs don’t mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Compromise

Dog

Mind

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.

Children

Photography

School

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

Nonsense

Photographer

Photography

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

Photographer

Trade

Vocation

I am serious about not being serious.

Serious

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Appreciate

Fun

Simplicity

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

Flower

Landscape

People

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.

Children

Men

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.

Cameras

Leica

Use

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Advantage

Agency

Appreciate

Art

Believe

Berlin

Best Things

Black And White

Brain

Cameras

Car

Care

Children

Clients

Color

Compromise

Crafts

Creating

Curious

Degrees

Differences

Dog

Drawing

Ease

Eastern

Editors

Emotional

Eternal

Events

Eye

Fall

Flower

Following The Crowd

Fun

Function

Giving

Goal

Guarantees That

Hands

Happens

Has Beens

Hobbies

Home

Humanity

Ideas

Ifs

Ill

Important

Inspirational

Inspiring

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Quotes by Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt

Do what the client wants, not what you want.

Dogs don’t mind being photographed in compromising situations.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

I am serious about not being serious.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

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.

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.

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