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It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
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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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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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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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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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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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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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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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