Robert Frank Quotes

• 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

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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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

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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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

  Photography, People, Looks

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  "New York to Nova Scotia".

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