187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.