I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEBeing 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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