"I came to photography by accident." — Eve Arnold

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I came to photography by accident.

- Eve Arnold

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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I can't hold a camera anymore.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

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

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.

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.

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I came to photography by accident.