187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

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

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

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.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.