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.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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This 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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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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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