Garry Winogrand Quotes
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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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I keep that memory somewhere inside me—where it’s safe. I take it out and look at it when I need to. As if it were a photograph.
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From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
