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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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