187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.

Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.