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Duane Michals

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

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Duane Michals

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

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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.

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Duane Michals

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I’m interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

– Duane Michals

Duane Michals

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

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Duane Michals

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

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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.

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Duane Michals

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

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Duane Michals

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who’ve only had museum shows but couldn’t survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I’ve done absolutely everything.

– Duane Michals

Duane Michals

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

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Duane Michals

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

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Duane Michals

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

– Duane Michals

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