One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Dorothea LangeRead
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes capturing the true essence and spirit of individuals beyond their material conditions.
Dorothea Lange highlights the importance of photographing people in a way that reveals their dignity and inner strength, rather than focusing solely on their poverty or hardships. Her work aimed to tell a deeper story that reflects the resilience and pride of those she photographed, challenging viewers to see beyond surface appearances and recognize the human spirit.
In practice
This quote can be used in a photography exhibition to illustrate the philosophy behind the artist's work.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
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.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.
If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians.
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.
There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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