Dorothea Lange People Quotations

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

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.

You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.