187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

I generally deal with something happening.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.