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.
DOROTHEA LANGESurefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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