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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

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