7 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Frank

Robert Frank is an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs that document the modern life and culture of America, especially American consumer culture, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Excellence in Reporting. His work is held by major institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by Robert Frank.

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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. Robert Frank
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The eye should learn to listen before it looks. Robert Frank
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Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference Robert Frank
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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 Robert Frank
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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
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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