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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

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