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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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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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Quality … has to do with intention.
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'
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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.
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The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
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Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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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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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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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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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
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Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
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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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