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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.

Dorothea Lange

I 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.
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Astray Efficient Gone Instinct led Mind Trust Wrong
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Believe Camera Live Use
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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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Affiuelence Face People Photograph Poor Poverty Race
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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Better Everything Fellow Hide Kind People Person See Tell
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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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Deadening Human Spirit Surefire Thing
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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Artist Beat Controlled Life Ocean Shore
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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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography

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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