Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
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… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
