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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Susan Sontag

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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