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

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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

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