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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus
Age: 48 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 14
Died: 1971
Died: July 26
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee Nemerov
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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
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I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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The camera is a kind of license.
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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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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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...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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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