Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
People
Another
Look
Come
Looks
Observe
Need
Photographer
Needs
Appearance
Thing
Everybody
Way
Looking

More quotes by Diane Arbus

Image
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Diane Arbus
Image
...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
Image
I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
Diane Arbus
Image
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.
Diane Arbus
Image
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Diane Arbus
Image
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
Diane Arbus
Image
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
Image
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
Diane Arbus
Image
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
Image
If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
Diane Arbus
Image
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
Image
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
Diane Arbus
Image
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.
Diane Arbus
Image
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.
Diane Arbus
Image
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Diane Arbus
Image
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
Diane Arbus
Image
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
Diane Arbus
Image
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Diane Arbus
Image
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus
Image
The camera is a kind of license.
Diane Arbus