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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
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
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

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