54 Quotes by Harry Callahan

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

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.

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.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

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

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.

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.