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.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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