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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

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem 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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself

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