All Diane Arbus Quotes
- I think all families are creepy in a way. All
- And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. Chapter
- The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. Brink
- We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think… Becomes
- Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for… Actual
- It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or… Beautiful
- There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my… All
- These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. Character
- It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. Always Seemed
- 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 does something to… Camera
- The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories Character
- Take pictures of what you fear. Fear
- We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. All
- There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Answer
- The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. Discouragement
- ...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it… Begins
- One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. Appearing
- I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. Act
- ... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the… Afford
- If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the… All
- For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. Important
- 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 is not the… Describe
- One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out… Don T
- Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. Advice
- What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper… All