Weegee Quotes

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

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

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

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

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

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

What I did, anybody can do.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

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.

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

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

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

News photography teaches you to think fast.

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.