83 Quotes by Duane Michals

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?

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

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

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.