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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Susan Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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

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