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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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