The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

- Robert Frank

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

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

- Robert Frank

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there ha…

- Robert Frank

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