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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

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
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 photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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 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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay

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