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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.
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
Diane nee Nemerov
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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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 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 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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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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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 I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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