The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. Diane Arbus More Quotes by Diane Arbus More Quotes From Diane Arbus Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. Diane Arbus they-saidphotographysaid 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 vice-versaphotographvices ... 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 longbooklying One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. Diane Arbus photographydoglying I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them. Diane Arbus littlesmeanbelieve The camera is a kind of license. Diane Arbus camerasphotographerkind ...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. Diane Arbus photographerfeelsmean These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. Diane Arbus lovelyphotographycharacter 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 tearsphotographybeautiful It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. Diane Arbus photographyfactsfiction What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. Diane Arbus photographymeanmoving 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 crazytryingkids I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed. Diane Arbus hurtdoethinking I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. Diane Arbus photographerbeautifulthinking I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't. Diane Arbus knowstwomean Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Diane Arbus traumatic-experiencesworrypeople 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 seamenfall 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 nudistsnuditydifferent What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own. Diane Arbus skinsphotographytragedy And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. Diane Arbus mountainsaintphotography
