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Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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