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

Susan Sontag

whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking 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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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