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All Quotes by author - Duane Michals
" All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. "
Children
Think
Books
" All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. "
Good
Good Work
Magic
" A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.' "
Walk
Looking
Much
" Art has to address eternal issues. "
Eternal
Art
Address
" 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. "
I Love You
Relationship
Love
" I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. "
Look
Know
Like
" I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. "
I Can
Imagination
Believe
" I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. "
Words
Worth
Birds
" I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. "
Help
Love
Just
" I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. "
Hard
Just
World
" In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. "
Tend
West
East
" I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. "
Nature
People
Think
" I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. "
Much
Enough
Anger
" I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. "
Magic
People
Face
" I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer. "
Photographer
Commercial
Done
" I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like. "
Thought
Say
Father
" Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. "
Lack
Me
Most
" My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. "
Event
Life
Work
" People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs. "
Early
People
Photography
" Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. "
Me
Myself
Life
" Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. "
Photography
Nothing
Appearances
" Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? "
Life
Nature
Value
" Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. "
Know
Nothing
People
" The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. "
Know
Accept
Believe
" The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer. "
Myself
Trust
Know
" The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. "
Truth
People
Look
" There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything. "
World
Doing
Museum
" To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it. "
Destroy
Fantasy
Fulfil
" To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. "
Nothing
Reality
Photograph
" Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. "
Imagination
Interesting
Voice
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