187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.