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

Susan Sontag

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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

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