Quotes by Duane Michals

Duane Michals

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

Emotion

Grief

Photography

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

Addresses

Magic

Mind

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you’re either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

Mediums

Needs

Term

Art has to address eternal issues.

Addresses

Art

Issues

Art is not fashionable. That’s why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

Art

Fashion

Two

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Art

Shouting

Whispering

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Art

Needs

Trying

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.

Emotion

Love Relationship

Love You

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

Circles

Eye

Flower

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Believe

Confused

Reflection

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Accepted

Addresses

Air

Art

August

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Boring

Challenges

Character

Circles

Confused

Contradiction

Culture

Dancer

Description

Different

Drawing

East

Emotion

Enough

Events

Expression

Eye

Fantasy

Fashion

Father

Film

Flower

Focus

Forever

Garden

Grace

Grief

Helping

I Believe

Ifs And

Ignorance

Imagination

Insight

Insightful

Invisible

Issues

Just Being

Long

Looks

Love Relationship

Love You

Lying

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Quotes by Duane Michals

Duane Michals

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you’re either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Art is not fashionable. That’s why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

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.

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

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