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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanaly

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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Beauty
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Birth
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. – Duane Michals

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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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One new feature or fresh take can change everything. – Neil Young

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. – John Desmond Bernal

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. – John F. Kennedy

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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. – Denis Diderot

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