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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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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
Recognize
Seen
Happiness
Ever
Nothing
Never

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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 more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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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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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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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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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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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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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.
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