Author: Duane Michals

Quotes

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

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

- Duane Michals

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

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

- Duane Michals

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

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

- Duane Michals

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

- Duane Michals

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

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

- Duane Michals

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Duane Michals

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