I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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