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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

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