Quote by Diane Arbus
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

Other quotes by 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. And they did. – Diane Arbus

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Most people go through life dreading theyll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. Theyve already passed their test in life. Theyre aristocrats. – Diane Arbus

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Experience
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Theres a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. – Diane Arbus

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Fairy Tales
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What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. – Berenice Abbott

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A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. – Author Unknown

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Photography

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. – Ansel Adams

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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. – Quentin Tarantino

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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. – Sir Isaac Newton

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I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him. – Henny Youngman

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. – Tennessee Williams

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