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Dorothea Lange Quotes

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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Go in over your head, not just up to your neck  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) ... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera  (Dorothea Lange Quotes) I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it  (Dorothea Lange Quotes)
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