"Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing……" — Duane Michals
"Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it."
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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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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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