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Garry Winogrand Inspirational Quotes (96)

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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
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Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
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There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
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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 already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
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I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
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There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.
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I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.
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I was a hired gun, more or less.
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Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
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Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.
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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
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You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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