Garry Winogrand Quotes

Every act is a visual judgement.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

What is art but a way of seeing?

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.