Elliott Erwitt

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist. ”

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along. ”

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. ”

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. ”

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. ”

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all. ”

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. ”

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. ”

In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up. ”

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas. ”