Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. Duane Michals drawgreatinference Change image and share on social
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph. Duane Michals borecopyenlarge Change image and share on social
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 birdclichedodo Change image and share on social
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. Duane Michals addressgoodmagic Change image and share on social
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. Duane Michals facegreatmagic share on social
I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business. Duane Michals artbigbusiness Change image and share on social
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. Duane Michals photographreality Change image and share on social
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. Duane Michals eastlifepeople Change image and share on social
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. Duane Michals addressbookchild Change image and share on social
