Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us. Dorothea Lange More Quotes by Dorothea Lange More Quotes From Dorothea Lange Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. Dorothea Lange bystanders your-side perception The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. Dorothea Lange unattainable photography photographer The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be. Dorothea Lange objects photograph photography One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. Dorothea Lange cameras photography use While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange eye photography life Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. Dorothea Lange possibility exhausted photographer Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore. Dorothea Lange beats ocean artist go in over your head, not just up to your neck. Dorothea Lange necks passion over-you It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. Dorothea Lange accidents lions photographer When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living. Dorothea Lange fields trying way I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong. Dorothea Lange instinct gone mind Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you. Dorothea Lange cat photography people ... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't. Dorothea Lange all-kinds kind people Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses. Dorothea Lange sunday photography today You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why. Dorothea Lange heart tree people It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. Dorothea Lange photography enough life I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. Dorothea Lange i-believe cameras believe Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. Dorothea Lange human-spirit humans spirit I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been. Dorothea Lange phases photographer I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. Dorothea Lange cameras important pride
