Garry Winogrand Quotes
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
Quotes to Explore
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Words do not pay for my dead people.
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You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
