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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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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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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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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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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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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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The camera is a kind of license.
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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