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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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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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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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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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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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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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