It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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… 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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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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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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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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