Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGENo country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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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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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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 is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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