Helen Levitt Quotes

• Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

  Helen Levitt

  Photography, Inspirational Photography, Inarticulate

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• 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

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• All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

  Helen Levitt

  Reality, Trying, Aesthetic

  "Photography Speaks: 66 Photographers on Their Art". Book by Brooks Johnson, www.nytimes.com. 1989.

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• 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

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

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• Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

  Helen Levitt

  Children, People, Television

  "Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95" by Margarett Loke, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2009.

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• 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

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