Garry Winogrand Quotes

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

you can make mean anything.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

It all depends what you mean by.