Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEBring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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 encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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… 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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