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

Susan Sontag

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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