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

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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