“Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.” NeedsTryingArtMightArtistWithin You Author:Duane Michals
“You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.” ArtSchoolTermTeachContradictionArt School Author:Duane Michals
“We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.” ArtBeautifulCultureAttentionShockVulgarNuance Author:Duane Michals
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” MenWayArtIdeasLightMightFacesMovingFormStreetsBuildingPaperPhotographyPhotographerInventionRecognitionOld ManFreakAlchemyBlake Author:Duane Michals
“Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.” ArtTwoDifferentDealsIssuesFashionArt IsDifferent ThingsTemporaryTimelessNever ChangeFashionableWhimTransientTwo Different ThingsFashion And Art Author:Duane Michals
“I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.” WorldArtHardBigsJust BeingBig BusinessArt World Author:Duane Michals
“The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.” PeopleLooksArtForeverAirParticularTruth IsFervor Author:Duane Michals
“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?” KindDoeArtRealRealityValuesDealsPhotographyInvisibleSuperficialValue Of LifeReal Value Author:Duane Michals
