Ted Grant quotes

Ted Grant quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”
-- Ted Grant

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“We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.”
-- Ted Grant

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“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
“I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.”
“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
“Achievement has no color”
“Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”
“If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.”
“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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