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Susan Sontag

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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself

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