Robert Heinecken Quotes

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.