Garry Winogrand Quotes

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

The camera is a kind of license.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

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

Photography just gets us out of the house.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.

You photograph with all your ideology.

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.