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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.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History

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