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.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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