I think Art should touch. I think that it should move on to greater consciousness of what one’s life is all about.

In our culture, there’s no place for a whisper to be heard.

I use Nikons. I’m not an equipment nut. I think that you should know your equipment and forget about it. Can you see Joyce and Steinbeck and Hemingway all sitting around comparing typewriters?

What people tend to photograph is what they have been taught to see.

Everybody has fixed ideas in their minds. We’re not open and this is the problem.

The photograph by itself is one experience, but the photograph with the text is quite another experience.

Duane Michals
The Mind of Duane Michals
LensWork No. 9