Quotes by 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.
• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
• The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
• The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
• 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.
• Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
• My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
• 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.
• You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
• Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
• 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.
• I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
• 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.
• My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
• 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.
• Life is like a camera—focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.
• Life is like a camera; focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.
• Life is like a camera: focus on what's important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, take another shot!
• Life is like a camera—from negatives, we develop beauty.
• Life is like a camera; you focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot!
• Life is like a camera—focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.
• Life is like a camera: focus on what's important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot!
• Life is like a camera: focus on the good times, develop the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot!