Harry Callahan Quotes
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The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
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Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
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You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.
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You're a legend in your own mind.
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I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
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Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.
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A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
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Only the journey matters.
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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.