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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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