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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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
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I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.
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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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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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The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
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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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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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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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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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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