Diane Arbus Quotes

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• I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Believe

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

  Diane Arbus

  Character, Stories, World

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

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• Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

  Diane Arbus

  Secret, Surprise

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, People, Tests

  Diane Arbus (1972)

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Important, Done, Way

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• Take pictures of what you fear.

  Diane Arbus

  Photographer

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• The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Yoga, Knowledge

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Adventure, Thinking

  "Arbus Speaks" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Identity, Left

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• My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Photography, Nature

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

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• For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Important, Photographer

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

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• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Taken

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• Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

  Diane Arbus

  Love, Witty, Understanding

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean Girls, Photography, Awkward

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Should Have, People, Ironic

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• Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Wanted, License

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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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Naughty, Favorites Things

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• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

  Diane Arbus

  Reality, Way, Photographer

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• There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

  Diane Arbus

  Quality, Answers, Demand

  "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

  Diane Arbus

  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.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean, Magic, Cameras

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