Quote of the Week

U.S. 91, leaving Blackfoot, Idaho. Copyright © Robert Frank

From an article in the NYT art section commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Frank's The Americans :

Still, Mr. Frank’s picture of a man at the wheel taken from the passenger seat of the car, “U.S. 91, Leaving Blackfoot, Idaho,” might well double for a portrait of the characters in “On the Road.” He was quick, however, to dismiss that association, remembering the men simply as “hitchhikers I picked up,” adding, “We were going to Butte, I think.”

Mr. Frank referred several times to the lessons he gained from just such opportune moments: “to find your way by intuition, not by intelligence, but intuition.”