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.
More Quotes by Duane Michals
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
Art has to address eternal issues.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
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.