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.
DOROTHEA LANGETo live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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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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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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