Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGEWhile 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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The 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.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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