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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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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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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