Garry Winogrand Quotes

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.