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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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Photograph
Photography
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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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 never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
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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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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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