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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

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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