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

Susan Sontag

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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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 painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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

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