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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph 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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Care Intelligence People
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame 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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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