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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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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Book End Photography
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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