Garry Winogrand Quotes

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

Garry Winogrand

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• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Break

• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• Don't be down on that you're not up on.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Up
  • Falling
  • Upstairs

• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Sexy

• Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Black
  • Injury
  • Flamethrower

• He must not believe, because he would be making the mistake of his life, that he can mess the international community about yet again.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Community

• Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Everybody
  • Retiring
  • Hammer

• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Light
  • Lines
  • Yellow

• For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Real
  • Red
  • Lipstick

• Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

  

  Olavo de Carvalho
  • War
  • Crime
  • Corruption

• The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Democracy

• In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Practice
  • Photograph
  • Print

• Only the artist who has a love and an aptitude for craftsmanship should make prints; only when the artist truly prints himself does the work earn the name original print.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Love
  • Artist
  • Print

• You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photographer
  • Saws
  • Print