I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good..

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot..

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself..

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood..

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film..

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue..

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real..

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer..

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each..

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop i….

What I did, anybody can do..

Sure. I’d 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….

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up..

News photography teaches you to think fast..

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whos….

I 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, ….

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photograph….

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees..

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel..

When 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,….