Harry Callahan Quotes

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

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

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

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.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.