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“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Life #Motivational #Softball
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“It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Important #Done #Way
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“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Inspirational #Photography #Believe
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“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Life #Photography #Nature
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“Take pictures of what you fear.”
-- Diane Arbus
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“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Inspirational #Night #Kitchen
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Inspirational #Photography #Philosophical
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“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Risk
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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
#Photography #Naughty #Favorites Things
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“The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories”
-- Diane Arbus
#Character #Stories #World
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“There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Mean #Magic #Cameras
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“If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Reality #Way #Enough
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“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Important #Photographer
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“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Happiness #Said #They Said
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“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
#Photography #People #Tests
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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Inspirational #Success #Uplifting
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“I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Believe #Mean #Littles
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“One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Dog #Lying
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“I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Inspirational #Photography #Taken
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“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
#Photography #Mean #Awkwardness
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“Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Darkness #Photograph
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“It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Fiction #Facts
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Ice #Gentleman #Pants
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“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Love #Witty #Understanding
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“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Adventure #Thinking
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“I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Photography #Mistake #Brightness
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“[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect”
-- Diane Arbus
#Self #Gaps #Intention
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“Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.”
-- Diane Arbus
#People #Worry #Traumatic Experiences
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“The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Trying #Cameras #Photographer
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“The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.”
-- Diane Arbus
#Mean #Thinking #Boredom
