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 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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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