58 Quotes by Dorothea Lange

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.

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

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.

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.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.