... 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 ArbusThe condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
Diane ArbusOne thing that struck me early is that you donโt put into a photograph whatโs going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
Diane ArbusWhat 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