52 Quotes by Eve Arnold

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.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

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.

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

I had in mind a long career.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

I came to photography by accident.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.