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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

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography

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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