It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
DOROTHEA LANGEArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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