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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

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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

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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