Photographer Weegee Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. — Susan Orlean

A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around. — Dan Gilroy

This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

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

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. — Richard Wiseman

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 photographer who has to be candid, not the camera. — Weegee

I'm no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they're so good, why don't they take pictures full - time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They're afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal. — Weegee

What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when a society rewards them for this type of behavior? — Daniel Greenfield

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

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other. — Logan Lerman