Author: Duane Michals

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art has to address eternal issues.

Art has to address eternal issues.

- 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

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