Harry Callahan Quotes

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Adventure, People

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• If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Cameras, Subjects

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• I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Photographer, Shots

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Teacher, Artist

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Book, Simple

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Adventure, Men

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, People, Matter

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Being Different, Sake

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• A man has to know his limitations.

  Harry Callahan

  Men, Knows, Limitation

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Average, Differences

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Talking, Done

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Believe, People

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• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Technique, Photographer

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Thinking, Expression

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• Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Adventure, Photographer

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• Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.

  Harry Callahan

  Opinion

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• I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Photographer, Mysterious

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• A man's got to know his limitations.

  Harry Callahan

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Simple, Way

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Artist, Thinking

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Strong, Believe

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Prayer, Offering

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• I think I came alive when I started photography.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Thinking, Alive

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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.

  Harry Callahan

  Morning, Sky, People

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