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Diane Arbus
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“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”
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“... I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”
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“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.”
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“You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
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“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.”
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
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“Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.”
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“It's impossible to get out of your own skin into somebody else's. ... Somebody else's tragedy is not your own.”
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“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
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“We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.”
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“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
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“The camera is a kind of license.”
Diane Arbus, U.S. photographer
(1923 - 1971)
Full name: Diane Nemerov Arbus.