Contests Quote by Garry Winogrand

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended…

— Garry Winogrand

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

— Christopher Anderson

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

— Garry Winogrand

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not…

— Langston Hughes

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

— Jay Maisel

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

— Garry Winogrand

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann