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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

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