Garry Winogrand Quotes

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

Everything I get praised for, I can still work on and get better.

I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.

Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.