"With the camera, it's all or nothing. You……" — Walker Evans
"With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing."
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26 Quotes by Walker Evans
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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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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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