The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGEIt is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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