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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
Photographer
New York City
New York
Diane Nemerov
Diane Nemerov Arbus
Diane née Nemerov
Diane nee 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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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being 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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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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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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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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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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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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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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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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