"It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a……" — Walker Evans
"It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air."
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26 Quotes by Walker Evans
Walker Evans has 26 quotes on this site.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by…
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography…
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the…
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has…
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is…
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Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate…
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I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't…
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics…
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More Air Quotes
This quote is filed under Air Quotes,
one of 4,448 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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