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Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

Duane Michals

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

Duane Michals

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

Duane Michals

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Duane Michals

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Duane Michals

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

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Duane Michals

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Duane Michals

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

Duane Michals

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

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.

Duane Michals

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Duane Michals

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

Duane Michals

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

Duane Michals

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Duane Michals