Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. — 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 hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share
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
