The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

- Robert Heinecken

I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do a…

- Robert Heinecken

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what …

- Robert Heinecken

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new conf…

- Robert Heinecken

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a v…

- Robert Heinecken

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using s…

- Robert Heinecken

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

- Robert Heinecken