Assumption Quote by Duane Michals

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

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

— Duane Michals

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

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

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

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

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

Art has to address eternal issues.

— Duane Michals

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

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

— Duane Michals

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