The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGInstead 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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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How boring just to be a body.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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