American - Photographer | February 18, 1932 -
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 equal to the complexity of human emotions.
Duane Michals
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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.
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Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
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A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
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There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.
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The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
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I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
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