Diane Arbus Quotes
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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're…
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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 control and confidence…
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first…
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive…
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When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right…
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If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk…
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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 it,…
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and…
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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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