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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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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