Roy DeCarava famous quotes

04-23-2025

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Looks #Able #Should
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Thinking #Technique #Doe
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Beautiful #People #Black
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Beautiful #Reverence For Life #Truth Is
The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Artist #Looks #Materials
Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Growing Up #Artist #Important
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Illusion #Reason #Photograph
It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Perception #Interest #Subjects
My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.
-- Roy DeCarava

#People #Survival #Important
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Trying #Quality #Tools
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Believe #Optimistic #Artist
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Photography #Intellectual #Visuals
Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.
-- Roy DeCarava

#Wall #Happens #Ultimate

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