I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

- Harry Callahan

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

- Harry Callahan

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

- Harry Callahan

The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. …

- Harry Callahan

I think I came alive when I started photography.

- Harry Callahan

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…

- Harry Callahan

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

- Harry Callahan

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

- Harry Callahan

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To m…

- Harry Callahan