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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

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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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