Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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