One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Dorothea LangeRead
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.
Interpretation
Authentic words from individuals hold the most power, while imposed language detracts from true expression.
Dorothea Lange emphasizes the significance of genuine expressions from the people rather than manufactured words that lack authenticity. When individuals substitute their natural vocabulary with imposed or adopted language, the profound essence of their thoughts diminishes, losing its visual and emotional impact, highlighting the importance of staying true to one's own voice.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of cultural heritage, you might use this quote to emphasize the power of genuine voices.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
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.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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.
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate
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