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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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.
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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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