The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
DOROTHEA LANGEI believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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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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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 … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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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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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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