Duane Michals Quotes

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
• How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a…
• If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into…
• Art has to address eternal issues.
• To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye…
• Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
• Art is really whispering, not shouting.
• 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 is…
• If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never…
• I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand…
• 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 him,…
• Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.
• Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
• Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.…
• Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because…
• I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
• To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
• I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture…
• I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

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