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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

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

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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. – John Steinbeck

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Photography

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. – Edward Steichen

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One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. – Author Unknown

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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. – Indira Gandhi

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full. – Terri Guillemets

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Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. – Chinese Proverb

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