Quotes by Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Once the amateurs naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.”

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

“I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.”

“I dont like to work with assistants. Im already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.”

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

“We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.”

“Keep it simple.”

“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

I dont like to work with assistants. Im already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.