Elliott Erwitt Quotes

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

You see, but you do not observe.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The more you look, the more you see.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

Art is about paying attention.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.