24 Quotes by Diane Arbus about Photography
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A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
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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 is not what you put in.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.
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I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.
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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 something you hadn’t seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
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what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.
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