Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbuswas an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers —and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 March 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Diane Arbus quotes about
love witty understanding
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
photography yoga knowledge
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
believe mean littles
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.
photography facts fiction
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
photography mistake brightness
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.
happiness war breathtaking
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
photography risk appearing
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
thinking creepy way
I think all families are creepy in a way.
photography crazy thinking
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
reality way enough
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
photography wanted license
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
mean magic way
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.