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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
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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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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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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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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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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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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