All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

- Helen Levitt

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

- Helen Levitt

I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.

- Helen Levitt

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuiti…

- Helen Levitt

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

- Helen Levitt

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

- Helen Levitt