Inspirational Quote by Garry Winogrand

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

It's not about the picture being taken.. it's about the story that comes with it.

— LostInTears

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams