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

Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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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Book Dream Memories
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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