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.
DOROTHEA LANGEThis 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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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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