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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.

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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 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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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

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