Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Dorothea Lange Quotes & Sayings
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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
A leader should not be a dictator.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
— Dorothea Lange
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
She learned which herbs were valuable and which were dangerous, and which herbs were valuable because they were dangerous.
— Leigh Bardugo
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
— Dorothea Lange
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid
— Grace Coddington
There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
— John Christopher
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
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
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
— Dorothea Lange
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
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
— Dorothea Lange
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
— Dorothea Lange
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
— Dorothea Lange
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
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
— Dorothea Lange
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
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
— Dorothea Lange
In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.
— Frances E. Vaughan
I can't look at everything I've already done wrong, only the things I can choose to do right from here on out.
— J.R. Johansson
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
— Dorothea Lange
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
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
— Dorothea Lange
To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
— R.S. Thomas
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
— Dorothea Lange
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
— Dorothea Lange
A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
— Dorothea Lange
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
— Dorothea Lange
