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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.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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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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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