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

Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

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