Robert Frank Quotes

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

~ Robert Frank

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

~ Robert Frank

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

~ Robert Frank

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

~ Robert Frank

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