Robert Frank quotes
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“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”
-- Robert FrankSource : "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.
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“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
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“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
-- Robert FrankSource : Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
-- Robert FrankSource : Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art
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“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
-- Robert FrankSource : Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art
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“Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.”
-- Robert FrankSource : "New York to Nova Scotia".
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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, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”
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