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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
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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Change Direction People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

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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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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