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Top 30 Harry Callahan Quotes (2025 Update)

Harry Callahan Quote: “You’re a legend in your own mind.”

1. “You’re a legend in your own mind.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “It’s a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.”

2. “It’s a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “A man has to know his limitations.”

3. “A man has to know his limitations.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “Only the journey matters.”

4. “Only the journey matters.”

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Harry Callahan Quote: “Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.”

5. “Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.”

6. “To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I think I came alive when I started photography.”

7. “I think I came alive when I started photography.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.”

8. “I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”

9. “Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “If you choose your subject selectively – intuitively – the camera can write poetry.”

10. “If you choose your subject selectively – intuitively – the camera can write poetry.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.”

11. “The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness – the point where you can’t go any further.”

12. “I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness – the point where you can’t go any further.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “A picture is like a prayer; you’re offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it’s like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don’t.”

13. “A picture is like a prayer; you’re offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it’s like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don’t.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”

14. “I guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it’s the right people getting shot.”

15. “Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it’s the right people getting shot.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I like the simple things. I don’t know why. I’m that way. I came from a simple place.”

16. “I like the simple things. I don’t know why. I’m that way. I came from a simple place.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.”

17. “I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don’t do it, you don’t know what might happen.”

18. “In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don’t do it, you don’t know what might happen.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “You only do exercises in art school. That’s not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don’t know what you are! But that’s what you have to search for.”

19. “You only do exercises in art school. That’s not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don’t know what you are! But that’s what you have to search for.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.”

20. “I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “A picture is like a prayer.”

21. “A picture is like a prayer.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I love art because it doesn’t have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That’s the toughest thing to do.”

22. “I love art because it doesn’t have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That’s the toughest thing to do.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “It’s the subject matter that counts. I’m interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can’t always see.”

23. “It’s the subject matter that counts. I’m interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can’t always see.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.”

24. “The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “It takes me a long time to change. I don’t think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.”

25. “It takes me a long time to change. I don’t think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.”

26. “My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can’t ever find out. You can’t find out in one life either.”

27. “I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can’t ever find out. You can’t find out in one life either.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.”

28. “Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I just don’t know what makes a picture, really – the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it’s beautiful and another one can write it and it’s dead. What the difference is, I don’t know.”

29. “I just don’t know what makes a picture, really – the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it’s beautiful and another one can write it and it’s dead. What the difference is, I don’t know.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “Every time I talked about making a picture I didn’t do it. I had already done it – talking about it! I quit talking.”

30. “Every time I talked about making a picture I didn’t do it. I had already done it – talking about it! I quit talking.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively – intuitively – the camera can write poetry.”

31. “The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively – intuitively – the camera can write poetry.”

— Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan Quote: “I can’t say what makes a picture. I can’t say. It’s mysterious.”

32. “I can’t say what makes a picture. I can’t say. It’s mysterious.”

— Harry Callahan

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