Diane Arbus

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.

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.

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.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had read more

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.