Garry Winogrand

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

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

When I’m photographing I see life.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.