Educate Quotes by Walker Evans

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm…

— Walker Evans

Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it…

— Walker Evans

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and…

— Walker Evans

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

— Walker Evans

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the…

— Walker Evans

What America needs is a political revolution.

— Walker Evans

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

— Walker Evans

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white…

— Walker Evans

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas…

— Walker Evans

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

— Walker Evans

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

— Walker Evans