Duane Michals Quotes
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People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
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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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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 think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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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.