Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbuswas an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers —and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 March 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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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 really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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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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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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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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When you grow 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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My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
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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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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
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The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
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Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.
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[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect