54 Quotes by Harry Callahan

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.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

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.

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.

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

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

You’re a legend in your own mind.