The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us. 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 photographyadventurepeople If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. Harry Callahan camerassubjectswriting 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 photographyartistteacher 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 photographyadventuremen I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like. Harry Callahan shotsphotographyphotographer 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 photographysimplebook I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further. Harry Callahan photographyartistthinking 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 differenceswritingaverage A man has to know his limitations. Harry Callahan limitationknowsmen Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. Harry Callahan photographyphotographeradventure 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 longideasthinking 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-differentphotographysake 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 photographyexpressionthinking 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 photographymatterpeople 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 photographydonetalking 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 photographybelievepeople 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 photographyofferingprayer 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 photographystrongbelieve 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 skymorningpeople Only the journey matters. Harry Callahan journeymatter
