"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."

--

Source : Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

Helen Levitt

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.”
“In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.”
“I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.”
“Lists are how I parse and manage the world.”
“The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.”

Source : Quoted in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow (1985)
“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.28, Courier Corporation
“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”
“All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.”

You may also like:

Diane Arbus
Photographer
Garry Winogrand
Photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographer
James Agee
Author
Lee Friedlander
Photographer
Lisette Model
Photographer
Robert Frank
Photographer
Saul Leiter
Walker Evans
Photographer