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
photography they-said said
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
lying book rainbow
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.
beautiful photography tears
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
photography character lovely
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
crazy kids trying
I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.
beautiful thinking photographer
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
happiness war breathtaking
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
people littles photographer
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
photography yoga knowledge
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
inspirational success uplifting
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
reality way enough
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
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.
should-have people ironic
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.
photography people tests
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.