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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

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