187 Quotes by Garry Winogrand

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.