6 Quotes by Robert Frank about photography

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    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.

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    Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always ends up having a romantic gloss about it - no matter how I try to avoid it.

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    There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was

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    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.

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