The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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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 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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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