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There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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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.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.
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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.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
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I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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