The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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