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.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their 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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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