There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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