Winogrand Photography Quotes & Sayings

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. — Garry Winogrand

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. — Joey Adams

She was a damn good kisser, maybe the best I'd ever had the immense pleasure of kissing. It helped that her lips were like pillows and she tasted sweet. Not like strawberries or peaches. Sunshine and sweet - her own brand of it. Plus there was desperation in the kiss, an understated but raw passion I couldn't recall ever experiencing before.
Or maybe that had been me. Maybe I'd been the passionate, desperate one. No matter. Either way, she'd stolen my breath, robbed me of thought and sense. She was a master thief, and I loved her for it. — Penny Reid

The form is the possibility of the structure. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. — Dalai Lama

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. — Garry Winogrand

The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past. — Manmohan Acharya

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. — Garry Winogrand

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand

All things are photographable. — Garry Winogrand

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

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive. — Garry Winogrand

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work. — Garry Winogrand

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? — Garry Winogrand

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. — Garry Winogrand

There are no photographs while I'm reloading . — Garry Winogrand

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions. — Garry Winogrand

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed — Garry Winogrand

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible. — Garry Winogrand

As a Bolling in Feliciana Parish, I became accustomed to sitting on the porch in the dark and talking of the size of the universe and the treachery of men; as a Smith on the Gulf Coast I have become accustomed to eating crabs and drinking beer under a hundred and fifty watt bulb - and one is as pleasant a way as the other in passing a summer night. — Walker Percy

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. — Garry Winogrand

Great photography is always on the edge of failure. — Garry Winogrand

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film ... if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better. — Garry Winogrand

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. — Edmund Burke

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

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter. — Garry Winogrand

Don't even think about a quickie," I warned him with a sharp shake of my head. "I couldn't come in this place even if you had two dicks."
He grinned. "That sounds like a challenge. You know that can be arranged. — Karina Halle

For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge of anger and destructiveness. He's been through every situation possible, emotionally and physically. Sometimes, it's been scary to get in touch with his growth, especially his relationship with Juliet. I really thought the audience might reject the softer side of Sawyer we saw in that. As for what will happen with him and Kate, all I can say is they have a love that is undeniable, but maybe it must be denied. — Josh Holloway

I am thankful to the Lord His daily provisions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Losing is inevitable, make sure you have the tools in your toolbox to deal with it. — Rich Franklin

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work. — Garry Winogrand