I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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