"Another thing is a photograph [or dance] has to be specific. I remember a long time ago when I first began to photograph I thought, There are an awful lot of people in the world [and as many emotional experiences] and it’s going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them, so if I photograph some kind of generalized human being, everybody’ll recognize it. It’ll be like what they used to call the common man or something. It was my teacher, Lisette Model, who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it’ll be. You have to face that thing. There are certain evasions, certain nicenesses that I think you have to get out of."
Resource: Diane Arbus, from An Aperture Monograph
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