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Janet Malcolm Quotes: If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
         

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.


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If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
         



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This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.



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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.



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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.



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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.



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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.



The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.



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There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.





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