I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane ArbusEverything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
Diane ArbusI'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
Diane ArbusIf the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.
Diane Arbus