Duane Michals Quotes
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I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
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Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
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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.