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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus
Age: 48 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 14
Died: 1971
Died: July 26
Fashion Photographer
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New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee Nemerov
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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 more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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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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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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