Helen Levitt Quotes

#1. When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.

Derek Ridgers

#2. The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

James Agee

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

Helen Levitt

#4. When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You wanna give your all.

Alex Pettyfer

#5. Yeah," he said. "When Tina came home, I made her peanut butter crackers.

Stephen King

#6. 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 intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.

Helen Levitt

#7. The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Ellen Key

#8. Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

#9. As I relax on the sofa a thought hits me, this is exactly the place I've been looking for forever ... I can barely believe that it actually exists

Haruki Murakami

#10. The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

Michael Lewis

#11. No one has hit me. My body is fine. It's my soul that aches. It's always been my soul.

Lily Paradis

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

Helen Levitt

#13. 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

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

Helen Levitt

#15. 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

#16. Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

Buzz Aldrin