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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Susan Sontag

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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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