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.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography 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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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