116 Quotes by Diane Arbus

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

...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 means, begins to unfold.

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 me to see darkness again.

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

I think all families are creepy in a way.