What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ‘curiosity.’ Eve Arnold Read 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. Eve Arnold Read Quote
I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Eve Arnold Read 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. Eve Arnold Read Quote
It’s hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you’re trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we’re talking about. Eve Arnold Read 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. Eve Arnold Read Quote
