Seeing 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 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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This 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.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Being 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.
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