Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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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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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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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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