Dorothea Lange Quotes

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

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.

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

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Photography helps people to see.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Art is about paying attention.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

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

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.