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What moves me about... what's called technique... is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

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 Quote

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

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 Quote

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

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 Quote

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 mysel.
~ Diane Arbus Quote

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 Quote