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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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