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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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

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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