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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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