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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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