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,…
• 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…
• Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
• I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
• 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…
• A man has to know his limitations.
• 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.
• It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
• 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,…
• 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…
• I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
• 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…
• I think I came alive when I started photography.
• 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…
• 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…
• Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
• 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…
• 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…
• Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
• 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…

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