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«They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
back away, come back, looking at, proof, stain, stains, stillness, turning away, turn away
«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.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
favorite, naughty, perverse, photography
«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.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
arrange, arranges, arranging, awkwardness, in front, stand in
«My favorite thing is to go where I've never been»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
«If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ''I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.'' I mean people are going to say, ''You're crazy.'' Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
camera, keep guard, license, plus, that much, The Story
«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.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, all right, begged, boundless, Eden, Eve, exasperation, Garden of, Garden of Eden, In the Garden, muck, mucked, muck about, procreate, Procreates, procreating, The Fall, The Garden, to seem
«Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
comes out, flaw, intend, ironic, one-way street, peculiarities, peculiarity
«These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.»
«When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Growing up,
Mothers
| Keywords:
catch cold, rubbers
«There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
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