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.
DOROTHEA LANGEArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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