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

Susan Sontag

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
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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