Garry Winogrand Quotes

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.