Eve Arnold

“I had in mind a long career.”

“I can't hold a camera anymore.”

“What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'”

“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 know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

“I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.”

“It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”