… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEI many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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 is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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