Dorothea Lange Quotes

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

Photography helps people to see.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Photographing a cake can be art.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

When I’m photographing I see life.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.