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Art is a form of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

Art is a form of consciousness.

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