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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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