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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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