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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

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