Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
More Quotes by Eve Arnold
What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
I had in mind a long career.