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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need

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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