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Dorothea Lange quotes: To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

Dorothea Lange quotes: You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Dorothea Lange quotes: It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Dorothea Lange quotes: Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange quotes: To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Dorothea Lange quotes: Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Dorothea Lange quotes: A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange quotes: The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Dorothea Lange quotes: Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

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 quotes: Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothea Lange quotes: That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

Dorothea Lange quotes: The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange quotes: I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Dorothea Lange quotes: I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Dorothea Lange quotes: One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange quotes: 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

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 quotes: A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Dorothea Lange quotes: It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Dorothea Lange quotes: Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Dorothea Lange quotes: A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange quotes: Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Dorothea Lange quotes: The words that come direct from the people are the greatest ... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest ... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Dorothea Lange quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Dorothea Lange quotes: I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they weretheir pride, their strength, their spirit.

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 quotes: Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

Dorothea Lange quotes: No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Dorothea Lange quotes: The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Dorothea Lange quotes: We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.