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

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

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

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