Quotes of Diane Arbus - somelinesforyou

“ A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. ”

- Diane Arbus

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

- Diane Arbus

“ A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse. ”

- Diane Arbus

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

- Diane Arbus

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

- Diane Arbus

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

- Diane Arbus

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

- 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 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

“ It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up… ”

- Diane Arbus

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

- Diane Arbus

“ Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ”

- 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

“ If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded… ”

- 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

“ It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up… ”

- Diane Arbus

“ What moves me about…what's called technique…is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. ”

- Diane Arbus

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

- 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

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

- Diane Arbus

“ A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ What moves me about…what's called technique…is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ”

- Diane Arbus

“ 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. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities… ”

- Diane Arbus

“ Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ”

- Diane Arbus
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