116 Quotes by Diane Arbus

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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 not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises