Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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