Diane Arbus Quotes
Collection of top 46 famous quotes about Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Diane Arbus quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
— Diane Arbus
Take pictures of what you fear.
— Diane Arbus
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
— Diane Arbus
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
— Diane Arbus
The camera is a kind of license.
— Diane Arbus
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
— Diane Arbus
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
— Diane Arbus
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
— Diane Arbus
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
— Diane Arbus
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
— Diane Arbus
Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises
— Diane Arbus
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
— Norman Mailer
I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.
— Diane Arbus
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
— Diane Arbus
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
— Diane Arbus
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
— Diane Arbus
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
— Diane Arbus
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
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
— Raf Simons
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
— Diane Arbus
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding
— Diane Arbus
I think all families are creepy in a way.
— Diane Arbus
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
— Diane Arbus
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
— Diane Arbus
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
— Diane Arbus
Every Difference is a Likeness too.
— Diane Arbus
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.
— Diane Arbus
I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
— Diane Arbus
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
— Diane Arbus