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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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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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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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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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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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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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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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 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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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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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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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