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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it. — Duane Michals

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture. — Duane Michals

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.' — Duane Michals

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. — Duane Michals

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. — Duane Michals

Art has to address eternal issues. — Duane Michals

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. — Duane Michals

Art is really whispering, not shouting. — Duane Michals

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. — Duane Michals

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like. — Duane Michals

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. — Duane Michals

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible. — Duane Michals

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art. — Duane Michals

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. — Duane Michals

You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. — Duane Michals

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. — Duane Michals

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. — Duane Michals

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs. — Duane Michals

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. — Duane Michals

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. — Duane Michals

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. — Duane Michals

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. — Duane Michals

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer. — Duane Michals

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see — Duane Michals

We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary.
We actually work at destroying our miracles ... — Duane Michals

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. — Duane Michals

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me — Duane Michals

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace, — Duane Michals

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer. — Duane Michals

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if ... '; And then do it. — Duane Michals

I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like. — Duane Michals

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals