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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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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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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To 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.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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