37612. “what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph July 26, 2021

37611. “My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37610. “Every Difference is a Likeness too.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37609. “I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph July 26, 2021

37608. “If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37607. “If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37606. “If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37605. “… 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.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37604. “What moves me about…what’s called technique…is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37603. “Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37602. “I mean, if you’ve ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don’t.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37601. “Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37600. “I mean, it’s very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37599. “The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37598. “…I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold. ” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37597. “One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37596. “One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37595. “What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37594. “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37593. “I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37592. “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37591. “There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. 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 July 26, 2021

37590. “For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021

37589. “The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.” ― Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations July 26, 2021

37588. “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ― Diane Arbus July 26, 2021