I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.' — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals Copy Share
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. — Duane Michals Copy Share
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in… — Duane Michals Copy Share
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature… — Duane Michals Copy Share
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.… — Duane Michals Copy Share
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. — Duane Michals Copy Share
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of… — Duane Michals Copy Share
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner… — Duane Michals Copy Share
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and… — Duane Michals Copy Share
Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what… — Duane Michals Copy Share
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are… — Duane Michals Copy Share
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. — Duane Michals Copy Share
