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

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

- 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 …

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Duane Michals