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Diane Arbus Quotes

1923–1971 United States

United States
Photographers

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7 quotes

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize."

"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

"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."

"They are the proof that something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you."

"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."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Diane Arbus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.