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.

A man has to know his limitations.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

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.

A picture is like a prayer.

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.

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.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.

A man has to know his limitations.

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.

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.

In 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.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.