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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
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
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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

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