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In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period. — Huey Lewis

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen. — Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. — Garry Winogrand

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

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

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

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

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

When I'm photographing I see life. — Garry Winogrand

There is no special way a photograph should look. — Garry Winogrand

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

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King

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. — Garry Winogrand

All things are photographable. — Garry Winogrand

Great photography is always on the edge of failure. — Garry Winogrand

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. — Bao Dai

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

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand

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

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

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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. — Garry Winogrand

Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision. — Tyler Cowen

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. — Lee Friedlander

There are no photographs while I'm reloading . — Garry Winogrand

He chose to eat his tart off my thighs, which I think we both enjoyed. — Nicole Peeler

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. — Garry Winogrand

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. — Garry Winogrand

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

We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet — Sheryl Sandberg

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