Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again,… — 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 Image
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
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 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 around because… — 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 could dare… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
