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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
Photographer
New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee Nemerov
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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'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 thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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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 camera is a kind of license.
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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 mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
Diane Arbus
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus
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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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