Garry Winogrand Quotes

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

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

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Modeling isn't boring.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.