Garry Winogrand Quotes

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

I pretty much know what I'm doing.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

I don't have anything to say in any picture.

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.

I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.