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Top 25 Eve Arnold Quotes (2025 Update)

Eve Arnold Quote: “What do you hang on the walls of your mind?”

1. “What do you hang on the walls of your mind?”

Eve Arnold Quote: “I can’t hold a camera anymore.”

2. “I can’t hold a camera anymore.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

3. “If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “It’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.”

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.”

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “I came to photography by accident.”

6. “I came to photography by accident.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “You should never reveal your true age.”

7. “You should never reveal your true age.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

9. “If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

10. “The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

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

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

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

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.”

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Eve Arnold Quote: “Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there.”

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

Eve Arnold Quote: “Themes recur again and again in my work.”

21. “Themes recur again and again in my work.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “I had in mind a long career.”

22. “I had in mind a long career.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.”

23. “I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.”

Eve Arnold Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Quote: “I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.”

25. “I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.”

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