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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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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.
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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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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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Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
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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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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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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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