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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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 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 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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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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'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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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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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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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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