Garry Winogrand Quotes

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

I don't enjoy art.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have to watch, professionally, the things that you're required to watch, but it's not something that I would sit down and watch, again and again.

I'm doing The Physicists, which is great, and I do have my agent to thank for that because a lot of agents try and talk you out of doing theatre. They don't push theatre because you can make more money doing television, whereas theatre wages are pretty shocking. But it's something I've always been keen to do and have been encouraged to do so, which is nice.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.