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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

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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World
Hand
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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
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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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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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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 thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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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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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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