Quotes from Alfred Eisenstaedt

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.

Once the amateur's 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.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

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

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

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

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

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 don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.