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Robert Frank Quotes

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Robert Frank
Photography, Eye, Black And White
Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank
Photography, Two, Humanity
"Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank
Photography, Black And White, Color
Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Robert Frank
Photography, People, Looks
Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Robert Frank
Photography, Matter, Photographer
"New York to Nova Scotia".

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