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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThat frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
DOROTHEA LANGEPhotography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
DOROTHEA LANGEPick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEI had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGETo 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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
DOROTHEA LANGELife, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGEArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGEgo in over your head, not just up to your neck.
DOROTHEA LANGEYou go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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