Eve Arnold quotes

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. (Eve Arnold)
I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. View quote
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What do you hang on the walls of your mind? View quote
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You should never reveal your true age. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera. View quote
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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)
Themes recur again and again in my work. View quote
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I came to photography by accident. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can't hold a camera anymore. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had in mind a long career. View quote
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I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism. View quote
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. View quote
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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)

Eve Arnold

Occupation: American Photographer
Born: April 21, 1912
Died: January 4, 2012
Quotes count: 21