Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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