Robert Frank Quotes
- Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
- There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough -…
- Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
- When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem…
- The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
- I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot…
- It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
- My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that…
- 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.
- 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 kind…