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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition

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