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’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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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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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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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