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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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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