Garry Winogrand Quotes

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

The camera gives you some control.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

When I’m photographing I see life.