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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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