It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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