All aboard, Diane Arbus is our next stop...

Such an interesting life, and her path thru the back stage world she lived and existed in is simply divine.  We have a movie about her to provide one perspective, but her work stands as the testimony to whom she might have been inside.  She found a sense of reality in everything she saw and touched with her camera.   She took us to places we might not ever knew existed if not for her photographs.

Some thoughts by and shared words from:

DIANE ARBUS

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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.

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.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

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

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

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

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.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.