Eve Arnold Quotes

Photographer

Eve Arnold was a renowned photographer known for her profound insights into issues of gender and race. Her career spanned half a century, and her work was widely published in prestigious media such as Life magazine.

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“If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.”

People Ifs Bigs Secret Offers Careful

Author:Eve Arnold

“...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.”

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Author:Eve Arnold

“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.”

Ifs Men Feels Fun Expected Plus Marvelous Being A Woman Flirtatious

Author:Eve Arnold

“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.”

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Author:Eve Arnold

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

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Book:The Unretouched Woman

Source: The Unretouched Woman

“You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.”

Ifs Magic Photography Musician Photographer Great Music Great Musician

Author:Eve Arnold

“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.”

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Author:Eve Arnold

“I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.”

Ifs Thinking Satisfied Frustration

Author:Eve Arnold

“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.”

Ifs Important Matter Use Cameras Important Things Boxes Leica

Author:Eve Arnold

“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.”

Ifs Use Would Be Curiosity Decades Single Word

Author:Eve Arnold

“What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.”

People Ifs Giving Willing Photograph Leica

Author:Eve Arnold

“If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.”

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Book:Film Journal

Source: Film Journal

About the Author

Born: April 21, 1912
Died: January 4, 2012
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 34

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Eve Arnold: in retrospectRelated source material

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