Diane Arbus Quotes

16 quotes from 14 authors

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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer

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I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

Lynne Ramsay

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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

Raf Simons

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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a…

Steven Shainberg

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I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues.…

Tamara Jenkins

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I still do all my developing and printing in my darkroom. Being in New York, you get tremendous exposure to great arts.…

Sung Jin Park

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There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is…

Nan Goldin

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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special…

Caleb Deschanel

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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…

Burton Silverman

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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of…

Laozi

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A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We…

William Eggleston

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Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many…

Tamara Jenkins

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A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange…

William Eggleston

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For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense…

Rineke Dijkstra

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Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but…

Robert Gober

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In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing…

Jerry Saltz

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