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.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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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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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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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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 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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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