It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

- Eve Arnold

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

- Eve Arnold

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do i…

- Eve Arnold

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

- Eve Arnold

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me be…

- Eve Arnold

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

- Eve Arnold

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

- Eve Arnold

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 kno…

- Eve Arnold

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camer…

- Eve Arnold