Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEOurs 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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