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It is not the position, but the disposition.

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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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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