Robert Frank famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
-- Robert Frank

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Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
-- Robert Frank

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The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
-- Robert Frank

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When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
-- Robert Frank

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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
-- Robert Frank

#Photography #Black And White #Color
Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
-- Robert Frank

#Photography #Matter #Photographer

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
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.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
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.
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

Robert Frank famous quotes

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