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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

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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

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