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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

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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
A 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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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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