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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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

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