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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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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
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Paris
France
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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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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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Quality … has to do with intention.
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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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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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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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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 am serious about not being serious.
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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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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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It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.
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I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
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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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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
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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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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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