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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

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