To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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