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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.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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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Care Intelligence People
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex

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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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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