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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

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting 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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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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