Duane Michals's Profile
Brief about Duane Michals: By info that we know Duane Michals was born at 1932-02-18. And also Duane Michals is American Photographer.
Some Duane Michals's quotes. Goto "Duane Michals's quotation" section for more.Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
Tags: Head, Imagination, TrustI believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Tags: Cannot, Imagination, InfinitelyI think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Tags: Anger, Enough, PrettyIn the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
Tags: East, Life, WestMy work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Tags: Event, Life, WorkPhotography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Tags: Appears, DealsThe majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Tags: Eyes, Focus, TellThe question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
Tags: Art, Question, TruthTo photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
Tags: Photograph, RealityUsually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
Tags: Boring, Painting, SimplyEven in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
Tags: Human, Love, SayingI got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Tags: Great, Words, WritingI still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
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