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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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 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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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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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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The camera is a kind of license.
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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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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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