Duane Michals Quotes
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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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Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
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You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.