58 Quotes by Dorothea Lange

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

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

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

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.