Diane Arbus

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ”

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”

This photographing is really the business of stealing. ”

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. ”

That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions. ”

There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course. ”

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. ”

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. ”