Harry Callahan Quotes
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
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It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
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I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
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It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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A man has to know his limitations.
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
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The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
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If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
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I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.
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I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
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It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
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Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.
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I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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A picture is like a prayer.
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I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.
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A man's got to know his limitations.