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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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