12 Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz

It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover something in a photograph that is the key. The very doorway to your own interest.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I’m going to get in there. I’m going to make these pictures. We need a record.