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.
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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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 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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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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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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… 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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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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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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