"The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures……" — Walker Evans
"The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system."
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26 Quotes by Walker Evans
Walker Evans has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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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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