119 Quotes by Elliott Erwitt

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.

You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Good photography is not about ‘Zone Printing’ or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see, or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

I don’t like explosions. I don’t mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

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.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.