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

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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus

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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
~ Diane Arbus

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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus

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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.
~ Diane Arbus

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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
~ Diane Arbus

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