Garry Winogrand Quotes

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Facts are often complicated.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Some things were beyond understanding.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Exactitude is not truth.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.