Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
DOROTHEA LANGEI many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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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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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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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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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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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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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