No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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