I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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The 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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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