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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

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