The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

- Richard Kalvar

I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the am…

- Richard Kalvar

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.

- Richard Kalvar

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from ev…

- Richard Kalvar