Garry Winogrand Quotes
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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We all have levels of performance.
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He wanted to tell me that he thought he finally knew why Christ said to call no man Fool. Christ had said it, Seymour thought I'd want to know, because there are no fools. Dopes, yes - fools, no.
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I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
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In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.
