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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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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Book Dream Memories
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer

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