Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I j…

- Joel Meyerowitz

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

- Joel Meyerowitz

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape …

- Joel Meyerowitz

You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that look…

- Joel Meyerowitz

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildin…

- Joel Meyerowitz

One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I d…

- Joel Meyerowitz

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

- Joel Meyerowitz

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

- Joel Meyerowitz

When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the s…

- Joel Meyerowitz