Photography Quotes by William Wegman

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my…

— William Wegman

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

— William Wegman

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas…

— William Wegman

Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released.

— William Wegman

I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular…

— William Wegman

When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have…

— William Wegman

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

— William Wegman

Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10…

— William Wegman

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to…

— William Wegman

Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty…

— William Wegman

In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray…

— William Wegman

I get so confused about life photography art.

— William Wegman

My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.

— William Wegman

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial…

— William Wegman

My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I…

— William Wegman