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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

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