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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
Fantastic
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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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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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 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 never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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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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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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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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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