Richard Kalvar quotes

Richard Kalvar quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.”
-- Richard Kalvar

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“I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. I use people as unconscous actors in little dramas they don't know they're in. These pictures are about Earthlings, but I'll let you in on a secret: I'm an Earthling myself.”
-- Richard Kalvar

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“Itâ€™s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebodyâ€™s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyoneâ€™s expense.”
-- Richard Kalvar

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“A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.”
-- Richard Kalvar

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“It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.”
-- Richard Kalvar

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“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.”
“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”
“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”
“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”
“Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.”

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