List of Diane Arbus Quotes

When You're Growing 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.

The More Specific You Are, The More General It'll Be.

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.

The Discouragement Masquerades As The Impossibility.

The Condition Of Photographing Is Maybe The Condition Of Being On The Brink Of Conversion To Anything.

And The Revelation Was A Little Like What Saints Receive On Mountains - A Further Chapter In The History Of The Mystery.

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.

Most People Go Through Life Dreading They'll Have A Traumatic Experience.

The Camera Is A Kind Of License.

Everything Is So Superb And Breathtaking. I Am Creeping Forward On My Belly Like They Do In War Movies.

... 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.

[our Self-image Is] That Gap Between Intention And Effect