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Love dies because its birth was an error.

Susan Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay 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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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