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.

— Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold Quotes

I didn’t want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

— Eve Arnold

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

— Eve Arnold

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

— Eve Arnold

You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there.

— Eve Arnold

Themes recur again and again in my work.

— Eve Arnold

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

— Eve Arnold

You should never reveal your true age.

— Eve Arnold

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

— 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.

— 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.

— Eve Arnold

Fun

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

— Eve Arnold

It’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

— Eve Arnold

I came to photography by accident.

— Eve Arnold

I can’t hold a camera anymore.

— Eve Arnold

I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

— Eve Arnold

I had in mind a long career.

— Eve Arnold

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

— Eve Arnold

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.

— 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.

— Eve Arnold

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.

— Eve Arnold

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