83 Quotes by Duane Michals

I don’t get straight people, but I understand what they look like.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I’m not interested in what things look like.

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

Art is not fashionable. That’s why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

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.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people’s lives – something they know nothing about – and drawing great inferences into it.

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.

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me.

I’m very hard on the art world just being a big business.