Dorothea Lange > Quotes

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

“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.”
― Dorothea Lange

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
― Dorothea Lange

“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.”
― Dorothea Lange

“You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...”
― Dorothea Lange

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
― Dorothea Lange

“I think we conjure up and invent people, and then whoever happens to be there is the recipient of our imagination. A good deal of the attraction between people, I think, is based on the fact that one is able to absorb the creation”
― Dorothea Lange

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
― Dorothea Lange