You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.
Joel Meyerowitz[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.
Joel MeyerowitzAttempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.
Joel MeyerowitzI want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. Itโs a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. Itโs pure philosophy. And poetry.
Joel Meyerowitz