Dorothea Lange Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

When I’m photographing I see life.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

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.

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

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

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

Photography helps people to see.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

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.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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.

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 fight to take a good photograph every single time.

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.

I just love the world of photography.