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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

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