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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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