Arrange Things Quotes by Diane Arbus

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

...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

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

— Diane Arbus

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

I think all families are creepy in a way.

— Diane Arbus

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

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

— Diane Arbus

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

— Diane Arbus

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

— Diane Arbus

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

— Diane Arbus

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

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

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

— Diane Arbus

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