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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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