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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

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