To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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… 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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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 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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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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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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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