Diane Arbus Quotes

“I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.”

“I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.”

“what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.”

“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”

“I dream for an absentee and oft maligned device—the accident-maker, the soul-taker, my camera; its factory guaranteedthird eye, without which I am duly dimand memory denied. No picturesfor my contrived Arbus to declare, excepting some stitch of Sextonmanages these sentences of despair.”

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”

“Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.”

“The more specific you are the more general it'll be.”

“My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.”

“My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.”

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”