Weegee Photographer 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

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

Sometimes I feel like a vampire — Jennifer Lawrence

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour. — Laozi

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

If these were my last moments on earth, I'd spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he'd do the same. — Jeaniene Frost

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

You are a child of God.
You are blessed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. — William Carlos Williams

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

The trouble with being a family is when something terrible is bothering one of its members, it's liable to bother everyone else as well. Family is strong. One of the strongest things I can think of. But the weakness is the love that's shared within it. We care so much sometimes that it can break us. So — Joe Hart

I am what I am," Ty said. "And what is that?" Ariane asked. "A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances." He nodded at Bard. "Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty? — Neal Stephenson

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

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality. — Megan McCafferty

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

A lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned — Ani DiFranco

And thus thou canst remark that every act
At bottom exists not of itself, nor is
As body is, nor has like name with void;
But rather of sort more fitly to be called
An accident of body, and of place
Wherein all things go on. — Lucretius