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.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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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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