Dorothea Lange

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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

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.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

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

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.