List of Eve Arnold Quotes

I Realize That I Had The Best Of Serious Picture Journalism.

I Had In Mind A Long Career.

Recording Sessions Were Stimulating To Photograph, Because Everything Was In Motion: The Subject, The Musicians, The Technicians And The Photographer. You Needed Fast Reflexes To Keep Up With Moving Targets, And Sensitivity And Skill To Get The Pictures While Keeping Out Of The Performers' Eyeline So As Not To Break Their Concentration.

...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.

You Should Never Reveal Your True Age.

I Can't Hold A Camera Anymore.

What You Need To Be A Good Photographer Is An Overwhelming Curiosity And A Good Digestion.

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.

What Has Changed Is That When I Photographed, Most People That I Photographed Didn't Have The Right Of Refusal On Their Work. It Would Take A Marilyn Monroe At Her Height To Be Able To Dictate That.

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 Came To Photography By Accident.

A Studio Session ... Provides The Greatest Chance For Control. Even Though There Is Total Freedom, I Still Dislike Studio Photography And The Contrived Images That Usually Stem From This Genre.