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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

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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

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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