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The camera is a kind of license.
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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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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 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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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Take pictures of what you fear.
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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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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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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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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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