You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms. Duane Michals More Quotes by Duane Michals More Quotes From Duane Michals Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me Duane Michals photograph If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me. Duane Michals accepted passion people I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Duane Michals photography writing bird If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography. Duane Michals photography witty memories I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. Duane Michals just-being world art To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it. Duane Michals fantasy way I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. Duane Michals challenges people thinking I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. Duane Michals photography photographer thinking I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. Duane Michals rhyme terrible helping Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. Duane Michals description insight photograph I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful. Duane Michals beautiful moving thinking I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. Duane Michals photograph persons trying I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible. Duane Michals invisible i-believe believe Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. Duane Michals myself nature work life I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer. Duane Michals complete photographer done work There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything. Duane Michals doing never work world
