I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky. Diane Arbus More Quotes by Diane Arbus More Quotes From Diane Arbus Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. Diane Arbus softballmotivationallife The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories Diane Arbus storiescharacterworld I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. Diane Arbus photographyinspirationalbelieve 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 life. They're aristocrats. Diane Arbus testsphotographypeople Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. Diane Arbus photographyinspirationalnight A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus philosophicalphotographyinspirational 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 hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again. Diane Arbus importantdoneway We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. Diane Arbus leftidentity Take pictures of what you fear. Diane Arbus photographer Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again. Diane Arbus photographphotographydarkness 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. Diane Arbus ironicshould-havepeople If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid. Diane Arbus crazyphotographymean 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 mean-girlsawkwardphotography Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises Diane Arbus surprisesecret I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness. Diane Arbus brightnessphotographymistake I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. Diane Arbus photographyadventurethinking My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. Diane Arbus naturephotographylife Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. Diane Arbus mixturesmy-best-friendmean Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus understandingwittylove I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. Diane Arbus photographytakeninspirational
