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Take pictures of what you fear.

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
Take
Pictures
Photographer
Fear

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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 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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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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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 mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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...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'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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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll 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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