"Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t……" — Duane Michals
"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 on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?"
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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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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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More Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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