Eve Arnold
[Photographer, b. 1913, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2011, London.]
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be “curiosity.”
Saul Leiter
[Photographer, b. 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, New York.]
I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
I wanted to go to the end of photography.
Gilles Peress
[Photographer, b. 1946, Neuilly, France, lives in New York.]
I am bad at memory—this is why I shoot pictures.
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
[Photographer, b. 1952, Moscow, lives in Paris.]
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.
Andy Warhol
[Artist, b. 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 1987, New York.]
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.
Chuck Close
[Artist, b. 1940, Monroe, Washington, lives in New York.]
I always say that inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
The only thing about photography which interests me is the aim, the taking aim.
