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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.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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 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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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

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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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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