Helen Levitt Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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