Robert Frank Photographer Quotes & Sayings

isn't the men who declare war who have to wage it. Only those of us who live in the field truly understand the realities of power. — Robin Parrish

Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold. — Margaret Mitchell

It was refreshing to flirt with a woman who didn't think it meant she had to fall on his dick with a missile-seeking vagina. — Olivia Cunning

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. — Elizabeth Goudge

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window. — Alec Soth

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it. — Robert Frank

When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots. — Ralph Gibson

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. — Caleb Deschanel

We see what we want to see, what we can tolerate seeing, and our partner does the same. Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness. We narrow down our partner, ignoring or rejecting essential parts when they threaten the established order of our coupledom. We also reduce ourselves, jettisoning large chunks of our personalities in the name of love. — Esther Perel

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. — Robert Frank

I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original. — Kevin Feige

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' — Sandra Bullock

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference — Robert Frank

Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you — Michelle Hodkin

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. — Abraham Verghese