Latest Garry Winogrand Quotes from Interviews

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• I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

  Garry Winogrand

  Mean, Long, Events

  The ASX Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 1981.

• I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

  Garry Winogrand

  Tired, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

  Garry Winogrand

  Zoos, Animal, Projects

  The ASX Interview, www.americansuburbx.com. 1981.

• I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

  Garry Winogrand

  Matter, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

  Garry Winogrand

  Book, Want, Shows

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

  Garry Winogrand

  Mind, Surviving

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

  Garry Winogrand

  Survivor, Surviving

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.

  Garry Winogrand

  Running, Mean, Kind

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

  Garry Winogrand

  Exercise, Two, Discipline

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

  Garry Winogrand

  Teaching, People, Kind

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

  Garry Winogrand

  California, Texas, Confusion

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

  Garry Winogrand

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

  Garry Winogrand

  Texas, Years, Long

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

  Garry Winogrand

  Moving, May, Wells

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  Garry Winogrand

  New York, Thinking, Entertainment

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

  Garry Winogrand

  Fun, Interesting, Enjoy

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

  Garry Winogrand

  Way, Function, Frank

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

  Garry Winogrand

  World, Language, Existence

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Laughing, Upset

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

  Garry Winogrand

  Play, Way, Narrative

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• I generally deal with something happening.

  Garry Winogrand

  Deals, Happenings

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

• Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Knows

  Source: www.zinzin.com

• Nobody exists in a vacuum.

  Garry Winogrand

  Vacuums

  Source: www.zinzin.com

• It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

  Garry Winogrand

  Successful, World, Photograph

  Source: www.zinzin.com

• I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

  Garry Winogrand

  Fun, Life Is Too Short, Photographer

  Source: www.zinzin.com