You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
DOROTHEA LANGEI realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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