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Art is a form of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

Art is a form of consciousness.

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