Robert Frank Quotes

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

The fight for photography became my life.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I'm very proud of.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.