Diane Arbus Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Believe

• 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)

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

• One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Risk, Likelihood

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Taken

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

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Fiction, Facts

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

• 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

  Photography, Mistake, Brightness

• 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.

• 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)

• 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

• One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Dog, Lying

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

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Wanted, License

• 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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

• 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

• 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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Tragedy, Skins

• 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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Moving, Mean

• The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Photographer

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

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

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Mountain, Saint

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

• The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Conversion, Conditions

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

• We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Thinking

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

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