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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

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

Artist Need Oneself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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
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
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 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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer

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