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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
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
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 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
