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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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

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