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Inspirational Quotes by Diane Arbus
- A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
- I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
- The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
- I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
- You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
- Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
- The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
- 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,…
- I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
- It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize…
- Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
- I think all families are creepy in a way.
- The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
- 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…
- Take pictures of what you fear.
- We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
- The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
- ...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…
- One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
- 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…
- Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
- Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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