Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.
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 li… - 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 li…
- Diane Arbus
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. - Diane Arbus
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do. - Diane Arbus
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic. - Diane Arbus
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. - Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you … - Diane Arbus
It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you …
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. - Diane Arbus
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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
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.
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
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.
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