I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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.
- 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
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…
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. - Diane Arbus
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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