Duane Michals

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

Art has to address eternal issues.

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