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Diane Arbus Quotes
Best Quotes by Diane Arbus (Top 10)
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
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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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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 tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
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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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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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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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More Diane Arbus Quotes
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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. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.
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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.
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What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
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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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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
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