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.

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

In god we trust.. everyone else will and shall be judged.. make peace with it

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.