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Diane Arbus Quotes

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 14, 1923 - July 26, 1971

Topics

Someone You Street See Flaw Notice

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Work Art Me Problems Artist Wrong

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Better Short Long Lesson Moral Than

I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.

City Year Lost Two Up Four

We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.

Life Work World Stand Done True

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

Good Good Things Originality Things

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

Change Great Ideas World Battle New

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

Stellan Skarsgard

Acting Out Head Something Going

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.

Michel Hazanavicius

Living Actor Way Greatest May Like

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

Think Sometimes Teenage Girls Text

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Work Father Home Me Laugh Serious

You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.

Myself You Look Person Say My Own

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Funny Parents World Thought Look Us

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