Diane Arbus

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something read more

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.

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

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

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about read more

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.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's read more

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover read more

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.