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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself

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