Helen Levitt quotes
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“Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.”
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“Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.”
-- Helen LevittSource : "Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95" by Margarett Loke, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2009.
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“It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.”
-- Helen LevittSource : Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”
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“All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.”
-- Helen LevittSource : "Photography Speaks: 66 Photographers on Their Art". Book by Brooks Johnson, www.nytimes.com. 1989.
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“I never had a “project.†I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.”
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“I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.”
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“A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.”
-- Helen Levitt
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.”
Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge
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