I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
DOROTHEA LANGEI encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGEI 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
DOROTHEA LANGETo 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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
DOROTHEA LANGENo 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEThat frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEgo in over your head, not just up to your neck.
DOROTHEA LANGEThis 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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