Weegee Quotes

#1. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

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#2. My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer ...

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#3. I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture ... it's gotta be good.

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#4. Sure. I'd like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It's exciting. It's dangerous. It's funny. It's tough. It's heartbreaking.

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#5. If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

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#6. The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

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#7. People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

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#8. This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

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#9. A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

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#10. Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

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#11. I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

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#12. To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

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#13. There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it's the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

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#14. What I did, anybody can do.

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#15. I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room ... I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

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#16. To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

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#17. Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

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#18. Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn't hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

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#19. News photography teaches you to think fast.

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#20. It's been a strange [summer] ... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers ... Of course, I included myself.

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