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.
DOROTHEA LANGESurefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Ours 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.
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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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