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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.
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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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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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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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A photograph 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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