I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious. Harry Callahan More Quotes by Harry Callahan More Quotes From Harry Callahan I 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. Harry Callahan photography adventure people If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. Harry Callahan cameras subjects writing Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters. Harry Callahan photography artist teacher Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life. Harry Callahan photography adventure men I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like. Harry Callahan shots photography photographer To 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. Harry Callahan photography simple book I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further. Harry Callahan photography artist thinking The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry. Harry Callahan differences writing average A man has to know his limitations. Harry Callahan limitation knows men Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. Harry Callahan photography photographer adventure It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking. Harry Callahan long ideas thinking The 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. Harry Callahan being-different photography sake I 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. Harry Callahan photography expression thinking It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see. Harry Callahan photography matter people Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking. Harry Callahan photography done talking I 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. Harry Callahan photography believe people A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't. Harry Callahan photography offering prayer I 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. I 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. Harry Callahan photography strong believe My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt. Harry Callahan sky morning people Only the journey matters. Harry Callahan journey matter
