The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
DOROTHEA LANGEI encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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… 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.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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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.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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