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.
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. - Duane Michals
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.
- Duane Michals
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himse… - Duane Michals
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himse…
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art. - Duane Michals
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.
It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you … - Duane Michals
It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you …
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. - Duane Michals
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
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… - Duane Michals
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…
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and … - Duane Michals
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and …
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 o… - Duane Michals
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 o…
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 e… - Duane Michals
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 e…
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