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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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 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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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