Quotes by Duane Michals

“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old mans face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a buildi...”

“A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography i...”

“Photographers tend not to photograph what they cant see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise were going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms an...”

“Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.”

“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.”

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”

“I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized. ”

“Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms ...”