54 Quotes by Harry Callahan

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.

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.

A man has to know his limitations.

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.

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

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

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.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

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.