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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

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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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