I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
They are the proof of something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling.… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's… That somebody else's tragedy… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them...… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa,… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. — Diane Arbus Copy Share
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Diane Arbus Copy Share
They are the proof of something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus Copy Share
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will… — Diane Arbus Copy Share
