Diane Arbus Thinking Quotations

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

I think all families are creepy in a way.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.