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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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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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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 a kind of license.
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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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