If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.
Diane ArbusWhat 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 ArbusI mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
Diane ArbusIt's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
Diane Arbus