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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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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I'm not afraid of death.
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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.
