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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

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