World Quotes by Lee Friedlander

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got…

— Lee Friedlander

The West to me is where the landscape is,

— Lee Friedlander

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

— Lee Friedlander

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

— Lee Friedlander

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and…

— Lee Friedlander

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but…

— Lee Friedlander

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

— Lee Friedlander

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

— Lee Friedlander

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do…

— Lee Friedlander

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

— Lee Friedlander

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is…

— Lee Friedlander