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Diane Arbus Inspirational Quotes (43)

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.
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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
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We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.
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Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.
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...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.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
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There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
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There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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