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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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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
Heads
Two
Someone
Ever
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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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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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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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Take pictures of what you fear.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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The camera is a kind of license.
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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'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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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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...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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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 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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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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