Helen Levitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
-- Helen Levitt

#Photography #Inarticulate
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.
-- Helen Levitt

#Children #People #Television
It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.
-- Helen Levitt

#Photography #Art #Thinking
All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.
-- Helen Levitt

#Reality #Trying #Aesthetic
I never had a â€œproject.â€ I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.
-- Helen Levitt

#Eye #Cameras #Projects
I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.
-- Helen Levitt

#Eye #Cameras #Projects
A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.
-- Helen Levitt

#Thinking #Looks #Comedy

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

Helen Levitt famous quotes

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