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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Susan Sontag

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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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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Beautiful Deep Women
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

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