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.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the 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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