Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEgo in over your head, not just up to your neck.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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