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

Susan Sontag

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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars 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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World

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