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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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