Walker Evans Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Lying, Vision

• Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Strong, Mean

• What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Believe, Quality

  Walker Evans, Maria Morris Hambourg, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2000). “Walker Evans”, p.131, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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