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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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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