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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition

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