Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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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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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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