Diane Arbus Quotes - Page 3

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• ... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

  Diane Arbus

  Lying, Book, Long

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• I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

  Diane Arbus

  Crazy, Kids, Trying

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• It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Garden, Eden

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Conversion, Conditions

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

  Diane Arbus

  Different, Nudists, Nudity

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• Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

  Diane Arbus

  People, Worry, Traumatic Experiences

  Diane Arbus (1972)

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• One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Dog, Lying

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• I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

  Diane Arbus

  People, Littles, Photographer

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• These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Character, Lovely

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• If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Men, Sea

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

  Diane Arbus

  Vices, Photograph, Vice Versa

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• Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

  Diane Arbus

  Happiness, War, Breathtaking

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The camera is a kind of license.

  Diane Arbus

  Cameras, Photographer, Kind

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• [Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

  Diane Arbus

  Self, Gaps, Intention

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• It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

  Diane Arbus

  Beautiful, Photography, Tears

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

  Diane Arbus

  Mother, Growing Up, Adults

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• The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Photographer

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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