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.
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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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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 go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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