Dorothea Lange: In Their Own Words

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

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

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

"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."

"The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirements but your own."

"Whatever I photograph, I do not molest or tamper with or arrange."