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I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
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
Photographed
Hurt
Doe
Littles
Little
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One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
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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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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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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
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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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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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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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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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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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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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If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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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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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
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