Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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 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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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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