I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

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.