Diane Arbus Quotes

• For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Art

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

  Diane Arbus

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Life

• 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

• Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

  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

• 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

• 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

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Art

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Travel, Favorite

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Diane Arbu

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

  Diane Arbus

  Tags in Travel and Travellers

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Photography

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

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Photography

• Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience.

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice; Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice.

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Advice, Funny

• 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

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Growing Up, Adulthood

• Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Understanding

Diane Arbus (20)

Birth:	14th March, 1923
Death:	26th July, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Diane Arbus was born in New York City, New York, USA. She was an American photographer. In 1972, a year after she took her own life, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale. In 1946, after the war, the Arbuses began a commercial photography business called "Diane & Allan Arbus", with Diane as art director and Allan as the photographer. In 1956, Arbus quit the commercial photography business. She began photographing on assignment for magazines such as Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and The Sunday Times Magazine in 1959.

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