Duane Michals Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Duane Michals quotes and sayings page 3 (photographer). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 32 we have.

“The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.”

“All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.”

“I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.”

“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.”

“Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.”

“I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.”

“Art has to address eternal issues.”

“I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.”

“I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.”