Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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How boring just to be a body.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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