Harry Callahan Quotes
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I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.
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A man has to know his limitations.
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You're a legend in your own mind.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
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You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.
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It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
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It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
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A man's got to know his limitations.
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I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.
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I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
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The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.
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I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
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Only the journey matters.
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It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
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I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.
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A picture is like a prayer.
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If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
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I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
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The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
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