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Top 26 Diane Arbus Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

“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

“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”

― Diane Arbus

“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

“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”

― Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

― Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

― Diane Arbus

“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them.”

― Diane Arbus

“I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.”

― Diane Arbus

“The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.”

― Diane Arbus

“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.”

― Diane Arbus

“That is why people have jobs and pay checks… it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.”

― Diane Arbus

“The more specific you are, the more general it’ll be.”

― Diane Arbus

“Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.”

― Diane Arbus

“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

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”

― Diane Arbus

“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.”

― Diane Arbus

“My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”

― Diane Arbus

“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

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”

― Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”

― Diane Arbus

“I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was… it made me feel shaky.”

― Diane Arbus

“There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn’t, of course.”

― Diane Arbus

“I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.”

― Diane Arbus

“I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody’s grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.”

― Diane Arbus

“I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.”

― Diane Arbus

“This photographing is really the business of stealing.”

― Diane Arbus

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