Quotes by Eve Arnold - Page 1

I had in mind a long career.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Careers
Long
Mind
Long Career
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I can't hold a camera anymore.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Cameras
I Can
Camera
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I came to photography by accident.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Accidents
Photography
Accident
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You should never reveal your true age.
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Age
Should
True
Reveal
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Themes recur again and again in my work.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Again And Again
Theme
Recur
Themes
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What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Brainy
Mind
Wall
Hang
Walls
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Cameras
Photographer
Photography
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I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
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Journalism
Realizing
Serious
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Photographer
Camera
Instrument
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Attention
Cameras
Intrusion
Numbers
Pay Attention
Camera
Lesson
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You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
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Magic
Musician
Photography
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I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Frustration
Satisfied
Thinking
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It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
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Special
Trying
World
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Curiosity
Digestion
Needs
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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Compassionate
Photographer
Cares
Lens
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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Bigs
Careful
People
Secret
Offer
Themselves
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Curiosity
Use
Would Be
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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Extraordinary
Lenses
Ordinary
People
People See I See
Anybody
Simply
Either
Front
Lens
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Curiosity
Decades
Single Word
Drove
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I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Give Me
Possibly
Subject
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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Giving
Leica
People
Photograph
Involve
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It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Cameras
Important
Use
Box
Camera
Important Thing
Motivates
Photographing
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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
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Black
Littles
People
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I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Cameras
Want
World
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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Cameras
People
Photography
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Blessed
Curiosity
Cursed
Digestion
Good Digestion
Overwhelming
Photographer
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If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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Inspirational
People
Photography
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I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
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Cameras
Ideas
Not Interested
Reality
Camera
Happening
Rolls
Unencumbered
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A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
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Chance
Photographer
Photography
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Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
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Men
Being A Woman
Fun
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What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Able
Height
People
Refusal
Work People Right
Dictate
Marilyn
Monroe
Photographed
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I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
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Affected
Birth
Children
Our Lives
Poverty
Document
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I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.
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Exhilarating
Finished
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...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.
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Art
Sex
Thinking
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If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Friendship
Chemistry
Geometry
Long
Long Term
Photographer
Produce
Stars
Two
Work Together People
Highly
Images
Pictures
Pleases
Two People
Work Together
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It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.
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Time Me Difficult
Assess
Camera
Conjure
Define
Each Time
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I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.
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Cameras
Special
Use
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I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Approach
Human Condition
Innocence
Journalism
Mirrors
People
World
Condition
Believed
Holding
Realise
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I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Equipment
Heavy
Light
People
Reality
Box
Frighten
Pleased
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Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
Eve Arnold / Photographer
Break
Concentration
Moving
Musician
Needed
Performers
Photograph
Reflexes
Sensitivity
Skills
Technicians
Fast
Stimulating
Motion
Musicians
Pictures
Skill
Subject
Targets
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It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
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Giving
Important
People
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