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Art is a form of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality

Art is a form of consciousness.

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