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
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
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — 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
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
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
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people… — 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
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
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
I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true.… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — 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 Image
...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 Image
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — 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. You can… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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