{"id":14295,"date":"2014-12-08T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:55:04","slug":"21-quotes-by-photographer-harry-callahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/14295\/21-quotes-by-photographer-harry-callahan\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Quotes By Photographer Harry Callahan"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere\u2019s a collection of my favorite photographs by photographer Harry Callahan.<\/a>
\n\u201cI think I came alive when I started photography.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cTo be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cYou only do exercises in art school. That\u2019s not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don\u2019t know what you are! But that\u2019s what you have to search for.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cEvery time I talked about making a picture I didn\u2019t do it. I had already done it \u2013 talking about it! I quit talking.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cIn terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don’t do it, you don’t know what might happen.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cExperience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters \u2026\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cIt\u2019s the subject matter that counts. I\u2019m interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can\u2019t always see.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cPhotography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cIf man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life. I am interested in relating the problems that affect me to some set of values that I am trying to discover and establish as being my life. I want to discover and establish them through photography. This is strictly my affair and does not explain these pictures by any means. Anyone else not having the desire to take them would realize that I must have felt this was purely personal. This reason, whether it be good or bad, is the only reason I can give for these photographs.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cThe photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different, but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cThe mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can\u2019t ever find out. You can\u2019t find out in one life either.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness – the point where you can’t go any further.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI can\u2019t say what makes a picture. I can\u2019t say. It\u2019s mysterious.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cA picture is like a prayer.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\n\u201cI like the simple things. I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019m that way. I came from a simple place.\u201d – Harry Callahan
\nRead my conversation with photographer Harry Callahan here.<\/a>
\n\u00a0Find more quotes in The Essential List Of Photographers Quotes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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