Diane Arbus, An Aristocrat

Her website
&
a few of her words:

The more specific you are, the more general it’ll be.

The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

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.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

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

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.