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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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 camera is a kind of license.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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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We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
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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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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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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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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'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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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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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