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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

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand 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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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

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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.

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