Author: Duane Michals

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Duane Michals

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 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

Art has to address eternal issues.

Art has to address eternal issues.

- Duane Michals

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