QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR
Books by and about Diane Arbus
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Fairy Tales
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
-Diane Arbus , From class lectures given in 1971 (published in Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, 1972)
Photography
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.
-Diane Arbus
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
-Diane Arbus
Travel
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
-Diane Arbus