When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being …

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but…

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of…

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and …

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it.…

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say some…

- Alfred Eisenstaedt