"How foolish of me to believe that it……" — Duane Michals
"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 reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing."
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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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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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Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion…
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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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