"Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and……" — 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 is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change."
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Duane Michals
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36 Quotes by Duane Michals
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and…
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If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as…
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Art has to address eternal issues.
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To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
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Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which…
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Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
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Art is really whispering, not shouting.
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If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted.…
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one…
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I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me…
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Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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