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

• Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Dancing
  • Scream

• A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

  

  Robert Frost
  • May
  • Worked
  • Poem

• Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

  

  Egon Friedell
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Treatment

• We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Plant

• 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