Diane Arbus Quotes - Page 2

• Siempre he considerado la fotografía como algo travieso; era una de las cosas que más me gustaban, y cuando lo hice por primera vez, me sentí muy perversa.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Naughty, Favorites Things

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• Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Said, They Said

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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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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  Inspiración, Éxito, Edificante

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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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  Mean, My Best Friend, Mixtures

  "Wrestling with Diane Arbus" by Germaine Greer, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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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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  Happiness, Said, They Said

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• If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

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  Crazy, Cameras, Would Be

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• You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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  Reality, Flaws, Appearance

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Señoras y señores, sigan mi consejo, bájense los pantalones y deslícense sobre el hielo.

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  Ice, Gentleman, Pants

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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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  Mean, Magic, Cameras

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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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  Photography, Mistake, Brightness

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Darkness, Photograph

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

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  Photography, Tragedy, Skins

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• I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Photographer

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• It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

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  Photography, Fiction, Facts

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Doe

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

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  Mean, Thinking, Boredom

  José Napoleón Oropeza, Diane Arbus (1986). “El bosque de los elegidos: escrito en homenaje a Diane Arbus”

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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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  People, Needs, Looks

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

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  Trying, Cameras, Photographer

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• If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

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  Photography, Crazy, Mean

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• I think all families are creepy in a way.

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  Thinking, Creepy, Way

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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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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  Photography, Teacher, People

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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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  Mean, Photographer, Feels

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• And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

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  Photography, Mountain, Saint

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

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  Crazy, Kids, Trying

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• ... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

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  Mentira, Libro, Largo

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