Garry Winogrand

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up.…

— Garry Winogrand

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

I have no expectations. None at all.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in…

— Garry Winogrand

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we…

— Garry Winogrand

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and…

— Garry Winogrand

As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it…

— Garry Winogrand

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the…

— Garry Winogrand

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a…

— Garry Winogrand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

— Garry Winogrand

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

— Garry Winogrand

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what…

— Garry Winogrand

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

— Garry Winogrand

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say…

— Garry Winogrand

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

— Garry Winogrand

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want…

— Garry Winogrand

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

— Garry Winogrand

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible…

— Garry Winogrand

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end,…

— Garry Winogrand

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand