Duane Michals Quotes

• Confía en esa vocecita de tu cabeza que te dice: "¿No sería interesante que...?

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  Trust, Ignorance, Ifs And

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• No es casualidad que estés leyendo esto. Estoy haciendo marcas negras sobre papel blanco. Estas marcas son mis pensamientos, y aunque no sé quién está leyendo esto... las líneas de nuestras vidas se han cruzado. Por la duración de estas pocas frases, nos encontramos aquí.
  
  No es casualidad que estés leyendo esto. Este momento te ha estado esperando, yo te he estado esperando. Recuérdame.

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  Reading, White, Waiting

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• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

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  Believe, Imagination, Vision

  Duane Michals, Sidney Janis Gallery (1976). “Exhibition of photo-portraits & street scenes sequences: black & white and color photographs with text, text without photographs”

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

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  Art, Trying, Needs

  "Duane Michals' best photograph: French Vogue does quantum physics". Interview with Karin Andreasson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

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  Mean, Dancer, Needs

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• Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

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  Writing, Way, Saws

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• Creo en lo invisible. No creo en la realidad definitiva de las cosas que nos rodean. Para mí, la realidad es la intuición y la imaginación y la voz tranquila dentro de mi cabeza que dice: ¿no es extraordinario? Las cosas de nuestra vida son las sombras de la realidad, igual que nosotros mismos somos sombras.

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  Believe, Reality, Quiet Voice

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• I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Magia

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• 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.

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  Confused, Believe, Reflection

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• El arte es realmente susurrar, no gritar.

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  Art, Whispering, Shouting

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• Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

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  Photography, Forever, Trying

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• La fotografía trata la "verdad" o una especie de realidad superficial mejor que cualquiera de las otras artes, pero nunca cuestiona la naturaleza de la realidad, simplemente la reproduce. ¿Y de qué sirve eso cuando las cosas de verdadero valor en la vida son invisibles?

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  Fotografía, Arte, Real

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• We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.

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  Beautiful, Art, Culture

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• La fotografía se ocupa exquisitamente de las apariencias, pero nada es lo que parece.

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  Photography, Insightful, Nikon

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• I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

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  Father, Writing, Men

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• 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.

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  Love You, Love Relationship, Emotion

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• Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

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  Lying, Character, Wrinkles

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• 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.

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  Photography, Grief, Emotion

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• In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

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  People, East, Looks

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• I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

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  Different, Looks, Way

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• Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

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  Fotografía, Arte, Conmoción

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• 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.

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  Needs, Term, Mediums

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• El arte no está de moda. Por eso la moda y el arte son dos cosas diferentes. La moda nunca puede ser arte porque la moda se ocupa del capricho, de lo que es temporal, de lo que cambia, de lo que es pasajero, de lo que es ahora y no es ahora. El arte tiene que tratar temas que son intemporales, que nunca cambian.

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  Fashion, Art, Two

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• The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

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  Art, Air, People

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• I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

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  Photography, School, Grace

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