Garry Winogrand Quotes

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Garry Winogrand

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Think
  • Going

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Girl
  • Young
  • Mentoring

• If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.

  

  Charlie Kimball
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Marketing

• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Space
  • Photography