Garry Winogrand Quotes

The camera photographs what's there.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Photography helps people to see.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

All things are photographable.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Draw what you see.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.