When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own. — 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
