Dorothea Lange Quotes & Sayings

19 most famous Dorothea Lange quotes and sayings (photographer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

“A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.”

“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.”

“Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.”

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

“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”

“The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.”

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”

“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”