Amount Quote by Roy DeCarava

“But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.”

Roy DeCarava

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There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

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My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s…

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I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines…

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The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

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You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

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It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

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Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

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I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone…

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Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system…

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The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

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For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

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