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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

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