Dorothea Lange

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase…

— Dorothea Lange

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

— Dorothea Lange

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not…

— Dorothea Lange

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…

— Dorothea Lange

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we…

— Dorothea Lange

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his…

— Dorothea Lange

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just…

— Dorothea Lange

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope…

— Dorothea Lange

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

— Dorothea Lange

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be…

— Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

— Dorothea Lange

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

— Dorothea Lange

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all…

— Dorothea Lange

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering…

— Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own…

— Dorothea Lange

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try…

— Dorothea Lange

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face…

— Dorothea Lange

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but…

— Dorothea Lange

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body…

— Dorothea Lange

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I…

— Dorothea Lange

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before…

— Dorothea Lange