In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

- Walker Evans

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

- Walker Evans

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of phot…

- Walker Evans

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

- Walker Evans

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

- Walker Evans

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

- Walker Evans

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, li…

- Walker Evans

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

- Walker Evans

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

- Walker Evans