Edges Quote by Garry Winogrand Download Open image “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” — Garry Winogrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edges Failure Funny Great photography Inspirational Love Photographer Photography
I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start,… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph.… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image