“I don’t care what happens when I’m gone.” –Robert Frank
Tag Archives: Quote
“…to hold one’s breath…”
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath when all our faculties converge to capture the fleeting reality; it is then that the seizure of an image is a great physical and intellectual joy.” Henri Cartier-Bresson
Like a Stain
A photograph is “like a stain”. “You can turn away but when you come back they’ll still be there looking at you.” – Diane Arbus
Leaving Home, Coming Home
“The pictures have to talk, not me.” – Robert Frank, “Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank”
If You Don’t…
“If you don’t carry a camera you are not a photographer” – Don McCullin
“…the instantaneous reaction….”
“It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.” – Robert Frank
“One must not think…….”
“One must not think about doing things in life. One must do them” – Don McCullin
“…life…”
“Above all, I know that a life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.” – Robert Frank
“…a feeling to another feeling…”
“What I see, what I hear, what I read, what I feel — that’s what really influence(s) my work. All is linked, from a reading to a feeling, from a feeling to another feeling, from a work to another….” – Corinne Vionnet
….mystery of the world…..
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” -Oscar Wilde