Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEPick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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