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

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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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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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

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Photography
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. – Berenice Abbott

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Photography

The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

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Photography

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day. – Author Unknown

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Photography

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. – Henri Cartier Bresson

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Photography

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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Freedom

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of peoples personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. – Busta Rhymes

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respect

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits. – Dick Wolf

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis

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