Garry Winogrand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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I never read about photography.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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Minimizing the sum of completion times leads to a very simple optimal algorithm called Shortest Processing Time: always do the quickest task you can.
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Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
