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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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