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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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Diane Arbus
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. – Diane Arbus

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Change
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All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. – Richard Avedon

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Photography

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. – Ruth Bernhard

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Photography

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. – Harold Evans, “Pictures on a Page”

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Photography

A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into. – Ansel Adams

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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others bare. – William Cowper

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Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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