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"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."

— Diane Arbus

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"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."

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