To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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