22 Quotes by Weegee

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

What I did, anybody can do.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…