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.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human 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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