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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.

Dorothea Lange

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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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
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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Before Disappear Eye Greatest People Vocabulary Word
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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Astray Efficient Gone Instinct led Mind Trust Wrong
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
I 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.
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Neck Over Photographer Realize Take You
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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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme
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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Better Everything Fellow Hide Kind People Person See Tell
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Enormous Life Live Touch Undertaking Visual
I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Animal Courage Encounter Highest Said Time Undeniable
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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Eye Life More Phenomenon Photography Psychological
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Closely Country Ever Itself Scruntinzed Visually

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