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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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