Garry Winogrand Quotes
-
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
-
Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
-
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
-
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
-
You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
-
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
-
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
-
People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
-
I don't go around looking at my pictures.
-
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
-
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
-
I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.
-
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
-
The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
-
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
-
The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
-
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
-
The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
-
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
-
There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
-
I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
-
I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
-
What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
-
All things are photographable.