Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Important
Something
Hadn
Way
Pictures
Make
Recognize
Never
Ones
Seen
Take
Done
More quotes by Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
Diane Arbus
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
Diane Arbus
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
Diane Arbus
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
Diane Arbus
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
Diane Arbus
The camera is a kind of license.
Diane Arbus
...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.
Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
Take pictures of what you fear.
Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
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.
Diane Arbus
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
Diane Arbus
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.
Diane Arbus
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
Diane Arbus