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.

I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

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…

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

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

What I did, anybody can do.

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.

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