Eve Arnold Quotations

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

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.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

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

I had in mind a long career.

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

I can't hold a camera anymore.

I came to photography by accident.

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

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