Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe 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.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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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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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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