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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One…
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and…
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which…
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a…
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At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching…
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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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…
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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…
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In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing…
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Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s…
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A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We…
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special…
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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a…
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