Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEPick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEBeing disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGESurefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGESeeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
DOROTHEA LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEThis benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
DOROTHEA LANGEThat frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEI many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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