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1. "Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it." ~ Duane Michals
2. "Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be." ~ Duane Michals
3. "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." ~ Duane Michals
4. "Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?" ~ Duane Michals
5. "In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing." ~ Duane Michals
6. "The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing." ~ Duane Michals
7. "To photograph reality is to photograph nothing." ~ Duane Michals
8. "Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph." ~ Duane Michals
9. "I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway." ~ Duane Michals
10. "Art has to address eternal issues." ~ Duane Michals
11. "I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself." ~ Duane Michals
12. "I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business." ~ Duane Michals
13. "Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight." ~ Duane Michals
14. "My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient." ~ Duane Michals
15. "The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art." ~ Duane Michals
16. "To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it." ~ Duane Michals
17. "Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it." ~ Duane Michals
18. "All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way." ~ Duane Michals
19. "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." ~ Duane Michals
20. "Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?" ~ Duane Michals
21. "A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances." ~ Duane Michals

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