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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness 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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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 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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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