{"id":13052,"date":"2014-04-04T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=13052"},"modified":"2014-04-04T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:55:36","slug":"20-quotes-by-photographer-weegee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13052\/20-quotes-by-photographer-weegee\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Quotes By Photographer Weegee"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere’s a collection of quotes by the inimitable photographer Weegee.
\n\u201cMy name is Weegee. I\u2019m the world\u2019s greatest photographer\u2026\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cI am a perfectionist. When I take a picture…it’s gotta be good.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cWeegee often said that he was, \u2018A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cSure. I\u2019d 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\u2019s exciting. It\u2019s dangerous. It\u2019s funny. It\u2019s tough. It\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a strange [summer]…. I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers…. Of course, I included myself.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cA good assignment to me is a good picture and a date. When I leave town I put a tablet in front of the girl\u2019s house (as with George Washington): Weegee slept here.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cI\u2019m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they\u2019re so good, why don\u2019t they take pictures full\u2014time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They\u2019re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cIf I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.\u201d – Weegee
\n“To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.” – Weegee
\n\u201cMany photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn\u2019t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cAnyone who looks for life can find it\u2026 and they don\u2019t 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\u2019t be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cThere are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera… there is no such thing: it\u2019s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cI had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room…I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cI 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.).\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cSo, keep your eyes open. If you see anything, take it. Remember \u2013 you\u2019re as good as your last picture. One day you\u2019re hero, the next day you\u2019re a bum\u2026\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cNews photography teaches you to think fast.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cTo me, pictures are like blintzes \u2013 ya gotta get \u2018em while they\u2019re hot.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cWhen 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.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cPeople are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.\u201d – Weegee
\n\u201cWhat I did, anybody can do.\u201d – Weegee
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