Garry Winogrand Trying Quotations

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.