List of Dorothea Lange Quotes

You Go Into A Room And You Know Where You're Welcome; You Know Where You're Unwelcome.sometimes In A Hostile Situation You Stick Around Because Hostility Itself Is Important.the People Who Are Garrulous And Wear Their Heart On Their Sleeve And Tell You Everything, That's One Kind Of Person, But The Fellow Who's Hiding Behind A Tree And Hoping You Don't See Him Is The Fellow That You'd Better Find Out Why.

Photography Today Appears To Be In A State Of Flight... The Familiar Is Made Strange, The Unfamiliar Grotesque. The Amateur Forces His Sundays Into A Series Of Unnatural Poses.

No Country Has Ever Closely Scrutinized Itself Visually.

When You Are Doing A Lot Of Hard Fast Field Work, It's A Physical Necessity To Forget Every Day. You Can't Try To Remember It In Any Continuity. You Get So Burdened If You Try To Do It The Other Way. You Can't Dictate To Your Material... We Found Our Way In, Slid In On The Edges. We Used Our Hunches. And It Was Hard, Hard Living.

That Frame Of Mind That You Need To Make Fine Pictures Of A Very Wonderful Subject, You Cannot Do It By Not Being Lost Yourself.

Ours Is A Time Of The Machine, And Ours Is A Need To Know That The Machine Can Be Put To Creative Human Effort. If Not, The Machine Can Destroy Us.

Being Disabled Gave Me An Immense Advantage. People Are Kinder To You. It Puts You On A Different Level Than If You Go Into A Situation Whole And Secure.

Photographers Stop Photographing A Subject Too Soon Before They Have Exhausted The Possibilities.

It Is No Accident That The Photographer Becomes A Photographer Any More Than The Lion Tamer Becomes A Lion Tamer.

The Good Photograph Is Not The Object, The Consequences Of The Photograph Are The Objects. So That No One Would Say, How Did You Do It, Where Did You Find It, But They Would Say That Such Things Could Be.

While There Is Perhaps A Province In Which The Photograph Can Tell Us Nothing More Than What We See With Our Own Eyes, There Is Another In Which It Proves To Us How Little Our Eyes Permit Us To See.

Photography Is A Lot Like Telling A Large Predatory Cat What To Do-while An Audience Of People You Can't See Watches You.