Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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 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 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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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