Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.
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
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.
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…
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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
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