Garry Winogrand Quotes

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

I like photographers - you don't ask questions.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Photography is my passion.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.