Garry Winogrand

“No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.”

“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”

“The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is about.”

“I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no stories to tell.”

“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.”

“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”

“All things are photographable.”

“A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.”

“I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.”

“When I'm photographing I see life.”

“Sometimes I feel like... the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.”

“You can say that I am a student of photography, and that is a long story.”

“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”

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

“It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.”