Best Duane Michals Quotes
- The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. Air
- Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. Boring
- Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of… Any
- Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. Head
- I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face… Already Know
- A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is… Appearance
- Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an… Act
- Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go… Attempt
- I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. Believe
- People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe… Became
- All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. Address