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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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
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 photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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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Art Photography Touch
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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