Garry Winogrand Quotes

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Garry Winogrand

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Find
  • Face

• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hair

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Play
  • I Can

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Work
  • Real
  • Character

• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Job
  • Think
  • Satisfied

• A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Needs

• In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

  

  David Alan Harvey
  • Spirit
  • Photographer
  • Shooting

• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Looks
  • Library

• I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.

  

  Charis Wilson
  • Waiting
  • Looks
  • Pleasant

• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photograph
  • Photographer