… 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.
DOROTHEA LANGESometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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 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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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 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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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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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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 camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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