To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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