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

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.

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.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can.

I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.