Explore Quotes by Garry Winogrand

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

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

I photograph to find out 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.

When I’m photographing I see life.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

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

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

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

All things are photographable.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

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.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.