You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there.
- Eve Arnold, Master Photographers – The World’s Great Photographers on their Art and Technique , Page: 23
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If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
- Eve Arnold
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A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. [But] even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
- Eve Arnold, Great Images of the 20th Century : The Photographs That Define Our Times by Kelly Knauer (Editor), Inc Time
, ISBN: 1883013755 , Page: 134
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It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing.
To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me… if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
- Eve Arnold
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I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
- Eve Arnold
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It’s an aggressive way of working because you want to go as deeply as you can, if you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves.
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I didn’t want to be a "woman photographer." That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
- Eve Arnold
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
- Eve Arnold
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Lesson number one, pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
- Eve Arnold
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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.
- Eve Arnold
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Themes recur again and again in my work. 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.
- Eve Arnold
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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."
- Eve Arnold
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