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

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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