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> [“I am always looking outside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what's out there. And what's out there is constantly changing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/i-am-always-looking-outside-trying-to-say-something-that-is-true-but/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

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## More by Robert Frank

> [“As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/as-morally-troubling-and-politically-charged-as-the-issue-of/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/it-is-always-the-instantaneous-reaction-to-oneself-that-produces-a/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/black-and-white-are-the-colors-of-photography-to-me-they-symbolize/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/my-photographs-are-not-planned-or-composed-in-advance-and-i-do-not/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/you-do-your-work-as-a-photographer-and-everything-becomes-past-words/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [“At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/at-a-certain-level-of-wealth-you-care-more-about-things-like-the/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/i-always-say-that-i-don-t-want-to-be-sentimental-that-the-photographs/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [“I am always looking outside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what's out there. And what's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/i-am-always-looking-outside-trying-to-say-something-that-is-true-but/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/when-people-look-at-my-pictures-i-want-them-to-feel-the-way-they-do/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [“There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/there-are-too-many-images-too-many-cameras-now-we-re-all-being/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [The eye should learn to listen before it looks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/the-eye-should-learn-to-listen-before-it-looks/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [“The race to make more money to keep up with the rich, he says, is the reason Americans are spending less time with children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/the-race-to-make-more-money-to-keep-up-with-the-rich-he-says-is-the/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/above-all-life-for-a-photographer-cannot-be-a-matter-of-indifference/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/i-have-been-frequently-accused-of-deliberately-twisting-subject/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

> [There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frank/there-is-one-thing-the-photograph-must-contain-the-humanity-of-the/)

[Robert Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frank/)

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