I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
DOROTHEA LANGEOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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 in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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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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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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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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