Quotes About Lee Friedlander

#1. A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.

William Eggleston

#2. If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

Lee Friedlander

#3. The world makes up my pictures, not me.

Lee Friedlander

#4. Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

Lee Friedlander

#5. I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

Lee Friedlander

#6. A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Lee Friedlander

#7. Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be encouraged, though one is reluctant to use its products.

Anton Chekhov

#8. [Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

Lee Friedlander

#9. these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

H. Beam Piper

#10. Photography is a generous medium ...

Lee Friedlander

#11. The West to me is where the landscape is,

Lee Friedlander

#12. Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

Lee Friedlander

#13. Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

John Gossage

#14. With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Lee Friedlander

#15. Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to call attention to and what I want others to know about me. It makes me ask: What is worth celebrating?

Sarah Kay

#16. Photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

Lee Friedlander

#17. There are few things more pleasurable than a cracking version of Hansel and Gretel and a good scab.

Lyn Gardner

#18. The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Marcel Proust

#19. I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

John Wells

#20. Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#21. I retired from everything except work.

Lee Friedlander

#22. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Lee Friedlander

#23. At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

Lee Friedlander

#24. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

Lee Friedlander