To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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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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