Garry Winogrand quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Garry Winogrand

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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

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

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

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

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

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

When I'm photographing I see life.

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

All things are photographable.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else
and whichever is better you print.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

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.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.