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Diane Arbus Quotes

Diane Arbus quotes

American Photographer March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971

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Diane Arbus quote: "Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of..."
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus
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
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no... Diane Arbus
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
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. Diane Arbus
... 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. Diane Arbus
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. Diane Arbus
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
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
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
Diane Arbus quote: "The thing that's important to know is that you never know...."
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus quote: "A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you..."
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus quote: "I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always..."
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus quote: "For me, the subject of the picture is always more important..."
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. Diane Arbus
...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. Diane Arbus

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