Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. Duane Michals drawgreatinference Change image and share on social
Even 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. Duane Michals complexitydeepemotion Change image and share on social
I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. Duane Michals artbigbusiness Change image and share on social
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. Duane Michals addressgoodmagic Change image and share on social
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. Duane Michals facegreatmagic share on social
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. Duane Michals photographreality Change image and share on social
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. Duane Michals eastlifepeople Change image and share on social
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like. Duane Michals expressfatherimportant Change image and share on social
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.' Duane Michals interestlotphotographer Change image and share on social
