Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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