Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEThis 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.
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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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 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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… 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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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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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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