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

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


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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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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.



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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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.

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



Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.



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

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



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All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.



My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.





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