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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

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
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

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