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Art is a form of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain 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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel

Art is a form of consciousness.

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