I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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To 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.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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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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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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 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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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